Beschreibung:
An analysis of texts narrating the Hundred Years War, from contemporary accounts to the sixteenth century.
Introduction'When the world woxe old, it woxe warre olde': history, etymology and national identity, 1066-1337'To destroy and ruin the whole English nation and language': the chronicles of the Hundred Years War'God gyue you quadenramp!': mimetic language in the war poetry of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries'The brightnesse of braue and glorious words': language and war in the sixteenth century'Talk not of France, sith thou hast lost it all': the Hundred Years War on the stage in the 1590sConclusionBibliography