By Mary-Jo Arn
Charles, duc d'Orleans, prince and poet, used to be a captive in England for twenty-five years following the conflict of Agincourt. The reports during this quantity, through ecu and American students, specialize in his existence and activities in the course of that point, and convey him as a major and discovered reader, a crafty political determine (accomplished within the abilities that might galvanize the English the Aristocracy round him), and a masterful poet, cutting edge, witty, and extremely self-aware. dialogue of his manuscripts, his social and political relationships, his wide library, and his poetry in languages exhibit him as a wise observer of lifestyles, which in his poetry he describes in methods no longer visible back till the Renaissance.Contributors: MICHAEL okay. JONES, WILLIAM ASKINS, GILBERT OUY, M. ARN, CLAUDIO GALDERISI, JOHN FOX, R.C. CHOLAKIAN, A.C. SPEARING, DEREK PEARSALL, JANET BACKHOUSE, JEAN-CLAUDE MUHLETHALER, A.E.B. COLDIRON
Read Online or Download Charles D'Orleans in England, 1415-1440 PDF
Similar ancient & medieval literature books
The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides
Ovid's Heroides, a list of letters by way of girls who've been abandoned, has too usually been tested as in simple terms a lament. In a brand new departure, this booklet portrays the ladies of the Heroides as a group of authors. Combining shut readings of the texts and their mythological backgrounds with severe equipment, the booklet argues that the issues of similarity among the various letters of the Heroides, so usually derided by way of glossy critics, signify a super exploitation of intratextuality, during which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer prompted via what she has learn in the Heroides.
Technopaignia Formspiele in der griechischen Dichtung (Mnemosyne Supplements)
Technopaignia is the 1st entire assortment and scholarly research of a corpus of literary phenomena whose particularity is composed within the inventive play with formal gains (acrostics, anagrams, palindromes and so on. ). The examine either discusses every one phenomenon individually as part of the background of old literature and touches upon extra primary questions on the notion of language, the interplay of literary construction and reception, the relation of literary and non-literary kinds of writing, the character of paintings and so forth.
Fiction on the Fringe: Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age
This number of essays deals a accomplished exam of texts that normally were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and limited to the margins of the style, reminiscent of the "Life of Aesop", the "Life of Alexander the Great", and the "Acts of the Christian Martyrs".
Anthology of classical myth : primary sources in translation
This quantity is designed as a spouse to the traditional undergraduate mythology textbooks or, while assigned along the primary Greek and Roman works, as a source-based replacement to these textbooks. as well as the entire texts of the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony, this assortment offers beneficiant choices from over 50 texts composed among the Archaic Age and the fourth century A.
- Threats and Promises: The Pursuit of International Influence
- A practical guide for the writing of the Greek accents
- Historia. Libro I (Clío)
- The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose
- Tools of Literacy: The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Extra info for Charles D'Orleans in England, 1415-1440
Example text
59 These risks would be avoided if an all-out attack were launched at Orléans. The English would then be able to dictate the shape of events without reliance on others. Gloucester’s distrust was real, and the bad blood between him and Bedford, seen in intermittent sniping over his older brother’s conduct of the war, had now found a damaging focus. 60 This challenge may have been prompted by the release plan. Sadly, an opportunity to seize control of events and undermine Bedford’s prestige was only too attractive to his brother, Gloucester.
It was this stand on principle that alienated Burgundy, who then withdrew his forces from the siege. A final opportunity to return to the policy of abstinence had been lost. The English were now unable to maintain any form of blockade. In April a relief force under Joan of Arc gained access to the city. The defenders were given new hope and launched a series of attacks against the bastilles that forced the English withdrawal from Orléans on 8 May. Joan had no knowledge of the earlier treaty with Bedford or Duke Charles’s own political intentions.
43 As Palsits points out, the best text of Cumberworth’s testament will be found in Edward Peacock, ‘Sir Thomas Cumberworth’s Will’, The Academy 16 (1879), 230–32 and 284–85. , Testamenta Eboracensia, Surtees Society 30 (London, 1855), II, 23–25. 38 THE BROTHERS ORLÉANS AND THEIR KEEPERS ious houses and churches throughout Lincolnshire and (to a lesser extent) London, and it would have not been out the question for him to have been the one who took Charles to the Franciscan house where the duke of Orléans met Thomas Winchelsey.