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Composed for King Henry VI in the middle of the Wars of the Roses, Of Knyghthode and Bataile adapts the most widely used military manual in the Middle Ages into English verse. That work is here edited by Michael Livingston and Trevor Russell Smith from all four surviving manuscripts, and presented with a contextualizing introduction and copious notes and glosses. Responding to both the evolution of warfare and the historical background of his own time, its anonymous poet produced what one critic has called "one of the most brilliant military poems of the fifteenth century."



Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Of Knyghthode and Bataile
Proem
Part I: Recruitment and Training
Part II: The Military Structure
Part III: Field Tactics
Part IV: Urban and Naval Warfare
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Appendix: Concordance to Latin Vegetius
Bibliography

Of Knyghthode and Bataile

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      Publisher Medieval Institute Publications
      Published 2 June 2021
      ISBN-13 9781580444750
      978-1580444750
      ISBN-10 158044475X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Composed for King Henry VI in the middle of the Wars of the Roses, Of Knyghthode and Bataile adapts the most widely used military manual in the Middle Ages into English verse. That work is here edited by Michael Livingston and Trevor Russell Smith from all four surviving manuscripts, and presented with a contextualizing introduction and copious notes and glosses. Responding to both the evolution of warfare and the historical background of his own time, its anonymous poet produced what one critic has called "one of the most brilliant military poems of the fifteenth century."



      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      Of Knyghthode and Bataile
      Proem
      Part I: Recruitment and Training
      Part II: The Military Structure
      Part III: Field Tactics
      Part IV: Urban and Naval Warfare
      Explanatory Notes
      Textual Notes
      Appendix: Concordance to Latin Vegetius
      Bibliography

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