Writing combat and the self in early modern English literature: the pen and the sword
Feather, Jennifer
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By examining these competing depictions of combat that coexist in sixteenth-century texts ranging from Arthurian romance to early modern medical texts, this study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern subject. JENNIFER FEATHERAssistant Professor of English at theUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. INDICE: Introduction: The Pen and the Sword Heroic Anatomies: Vesalius, Geminus, and the Humanist Subject 'A Sharper Reproof to These Degenerate Effeminate Days': History, Gender, Combat and Nation 'Lo, Ye All Englishmen': Maloryand the PreModern Self Astrae Returned to Heaven: Spenser, Justice, and Combat