THE TROJAN MIRROR by Wladyslaw Witalisz ( 9783631605936 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE TROJAN MIRROR
MIDDLE ENGLISH NARRATIVES OF TROY AS BOOKS OF PRINCELY ADVICE

By:

Wladyslaw Witalisz

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

3631605935

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9783631605936

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Publisher:

PETER LANG AG

Pub. date:

18 November, 2010

Series:

Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 29

Pages:

226

Description:

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. This title includes "Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy", "Laud Troy Book", "Seege of Troye" and "Troy Book".

Synopsis:

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.

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Switzerland

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Peter Lang AG

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