Literatures of the Hundred Years War

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From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped late-medieval literature. This volume adopts an expansive focus to reveal the transnational literary consequences of over a century of international conflict. While traditionally seen as an Anglo-French conflict, the Hundred Years War was a multilateral conflict with connections across the continent through alliances and proxy battles. Writers, whether as witnesses, diplomats, or provocateurs, played key roles in shaping the conflict, and the conflict equally impacted the course of literary history. The volume shows how a wide variety of genres and works are deeply engaged with responses to the war, from womens visionary writing by figures like Catherine of Siena to anonymous lyric poetry, from Christine de Pizans Book of the City of Ladies to Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales.

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Daniel Davies is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston
R. D. Perry is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver