The earliest English translation of Vegetius' De re militari
Author : Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Publisher : C. Winter
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Latin prose literature
ISBN :
Author : Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Publisher : C. Winter
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Latin prose literature
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : Universitaetsverlag Winter
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783825340575
Author : Christopher Allmand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1139500961
Vegetius' late Roman text became a well-known and highly respected 'classic' in the Middle Ages, transformed by its readers into the authority on the waging of war. Christopher Allmand analyses the medieval afterlife of the De Re Militari, tracing the growing interest in the text from the Carolingian world to the late Middle Ages, suggesting how the written word may have influenced the development of military practice in that period. While emphasising that success depended on a commander's ability to outwit the enemy with a carefully selected, well-trained and disciplined army, the De Re Militari inspired other unexpected developments, such as that of the 'national' army, and helped create a context in which the role of the soldier assumed greater social and political importance. Allmand explores the significance of the text and the changes it brought for those who accepted the implications of its central messages.
Author : Corinne J. Saunders
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859918435
Essays consider the variety of responses to warfare and combat in medieval literature.
Author : Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 1973
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Robert E. Lewis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472013104
The final installment of the most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
Author : Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1996
Category :
ISBN : 9780853239109
Author : Richard M. Hogg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 1992-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521264754
Volume II of The Cambridge History of the English Language covers the Middle English Period, describing and analyzing developments in the languge from the Norman Conquest to the introduction of printing.
Author : Charles F. Briggs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1999-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521570534
From the time of its composition (c.1280) for Philip the Fair of France until the early sixteenth century, Giles of Rome's mirror of princes, the De regimine principum, was read by both lay and clerical readers in the original Latin and in several vernacular translations, and served as model or source for several works of princely advice. This study examines the relationship between this didactic political text and its audience by focusing on the textual and material aspects of the surviving manuscript copies, as well as on the evidence of ownership and use found in them and in documentary and literary sources. Briggs argues that lay readers used De regimine for several purposes, including as an educational treatise and military manual, whereas clerics, who often first came into contact with it at university, glossed, constructed apparatus for, and modified the text to suit their needs in their later professional lives.
Author : Laurie Postlewate
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042021918
For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and executions are all types of public performance that were both acts and texts: acts that originated in the texts that gave them their ideological grounding; texts that bring to us today a trace of their actual performance. Literature, as well, was for the pre-modern public a type of performance: throughout the medieval and early modern periods we see a constant tension and negotiation between the oral/aural delivery of the literary work and the eventual silent/read reception of its written text. The current volume of essays examines the plurality of forms and meanings given to performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through discussion of the essential performance/text relationship. The authors of the essays represent a variety of scholarly disciplines and subject matter: from the "performed" life of the Dominican preacher, to coronation processions, to book presentations; from satirical music speeches, to the rendering of widow portraits, to the performance of romance and pious narrative. Diverse in their objects of study, the essays in this volume all examine the links between the actual events of public performance and the textual origins and subsequent representation of those performances.