The Hundred Years War in Literature, 1337-1600

An analysis of texts narrating the Hundred Years War, from contemporary accounts to the sixteenth century.

The Hundred Years War was central and paradoxical for the writing of English history, simultaneously galvanising pugnacious articulations of nationalism and exposing their bankruptcy. However, the conflict remains a sticking pointin scholarship of medieval multilingualism and its complex relationship to nationalism, often overlooked in calls for a "post-national" vocabulary.
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