Veteran Soldiers in Medieval Literature

中世纪文学中的老兵

• 批准号: 2266317
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Manchester Metropolitan University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2266317
• 关键词: Veteran; Soldiers; Medieval; Literature

This project will address a clear gap in the historiography of the returning veteran. The most prominent scholars working on the figure of the veteran in literature have focussed their attention on either the ancient or the post-medieval world, as a result, the figure of the medieval veteran is little explored. Though Kate Mcloughlin's Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) purported to offer a longitudinal study of war that encompassed the middle ages, her stated focus was towards 'the war representation ...of twentieth century Britain and America.' Existing consideration of medieval experiences of war and depictions of veterans have been thematic in nature, such as War and Literature (2014) and Emotions and War (2015) which have looked primarily at the way in which writers conveyed the emotional impact and experience of conflict, or they have only looked at the middle ages in brief as a setting for the discussion to come (Harari 2004). As a result, there is little understanding of how the figure of the veteran was perceived or portrayed in medieval Britain, what that tells us about their experience of war, and what impact warfare had on them either financially, physically, socially, or psychologically.

这个项目将解决一个明显的差距，在史学的返回老兵。研究文学中老兵形象的学者大多将注意力集中在古代或后中世纪世界，因此，对中世纪老兵形象的研究较少。虽然凯特·麦克劳林（Kate Mcloughlin）的《写作战争：从伊利亚特到伊拉克战争的文学表现》（Authoring War：The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq）（2011）旨在提供一个涵盖中世纪的战争纵向研究，但她所说的重点是“战争表现”。世纪的英国和美国。“对中世纪战争经历和退伍军人的保护的现有考虑本质上是主题性的，例如战争与文学（2014）和情感与战争（2015），主要关注作家传达情感影响和冲突体验的方式，或者他们只是简单地将中世纪作为讨论的背景（Harari 2004）。因此，人们对中世纪英国人如何看待或描绘退伍军人的形象知之甚少，这告诉我们他们的战争经历，以及战争对他们在经济上、身体上、社会上或心理上的影响。