Publication

2010 - Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter

Language

English

Word Count

56,500 words, Guess

Page Count

226 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783631605936
  • ISBN-103631605935
  • Library of Congress Control Number2011280075
  • OCLC Control Number706850932
  • Better World Books9783631605936
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPR275.T74 W58 2011

Description

The book examines four Middle English narratives of the Trojan War as examples of the medieval appropriations of classical history and classical narrative traditions as a discourse related to issues of contemporary politics and morality. The medieval stories of the fall of Troy are viewed as educational texts offering advice on moral and political conduct related in their aims to the genre of the medieval speculum. Four major verse narratives of the history of the Trojan War composed in Middle English at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century are discussed: the anonymous Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy, the Laud Troy Book, the Seege of Troye and John Lydgate's Troy Book. -- Back cover.

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