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In contrast to the history of the expression of sexual emotions and experiences, that of war — so frequently linked to sex verbally and conceptually — has aroused little attention for its own sake. It is commonly buried as a theme among others in general considerations of chivalry, the epic or historiography. Studies like G. G. Langsam’s Martial Books and Tudor Verse are rare.1 By now we know a great deal about what could or could not be said about sex in a variety of times, cultures and media. Matters are quite different with regard to that other condition of human existence, war.
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G. G. Langsam, Martial Books and Tudor Verse (New York, 1951 ).
Thomas and Dudley Digges, Four paradoxes… (London, 1604) p. 76.
D. Erasmus, The Whole Familiar Colloquies, for N. Bailey (Glasgow, 1877 ) p. 39.
Francis Bacon, Works (London, 1902) p. 728.
Daniel C. Boughner, The Braggart in Renaissance Comedy (Minneapolis, 1954) p. 99.
John S. Farmer (ed.), Recently Recovered ‘Lost’ Tudor Plays (London, 1907; facsimile edn New York, 1966) pp. 274ff.
Malcolm Vale, War and Chivalry: Warfare and Aristocratic Culture in England, France and Burgundy at the End of the Middle Ages (London, 1981) pp. 175–6.
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Hale, J.R. (1989). Epilogue: Experience and Artifice. In: Mulryne, J.R., Shewring, M. (eds) War, Literature and the Arts in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Warwick Studies in the European Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19734-7_10
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