Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century England

An investigation into the connections between military and literary culture in the late medieval period, and how warfare shaped such texts as Malory's Morte . Offers an impressive vision of a militaristic culture and its thinking, reading and writing. This is war as political and economic practice - the continuation of politics by other means. The book develops that feeling of war as avery real practical and intellectual problem and shows how a discourse community comes to share its thinking: in