De l’utilité des lettres dans la carrière des armes. Guerre et culture écrite en France au xve siècle

15th-century France provides a fruitful opportunity for reflecting upon the classic question of the coexistence of war and literature by observing the changing standards within the nobility to define, praise, disseminate and pursue a new model for social success that combined military and literary c...

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1. autor: Fourcade, Sara
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spelling cairn-RMA_211_0021RMALe Moyen Âge https://shs.cairn.info/revue-le-moyen-age-2015-1-page-21?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rma.211.0021 De l’utilité des lettres dans la carrière des armes. Guerre et culture écrite en France au xve siècle Fourcade, Sara2015 booksliterary nobilitymilitary treatisesnobilitywarfre Le Moyen Âge | CXXI | 1 | 2015-07-09 | p. 21-40 | 0027-2841 RMA_21155 15th-century France provides a fruitful opportunity for reflecting upon the classic question of the coexistence of war and literature by observing the changing standards within the nobility to define, praise, disseminate and pursue a new model for social success that combined military and literary competencies. Suggested by a moral literature that fairly consistently and critically called upon the instructions to war lords, this phenomenon is first studied from speeches made to soldiers and from the portrait of the good captain presented in military treatises, informed by experience and a knowledge of history whose popularity is confirmed by a study of the libraries of the great officers. We then turn our attention to the literature penned by the nobility which reveals the aristocracy’s own aspirations and how writing – about war, about service to the prince, and in defense of public service careers – then became a structural element of the identity of the warrior-noble.Cairn free access
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military treatises
nobility
war
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literary nobility
military treatises
nobility
war
Fourcade, Sara
De l’utilité des lettres dans la carrière des armes. Guerre et culture écrite en France au xve siècle
topic_facet books
literary nobility
military treatises
nobility
war
description 15th-century France provides a fruitful opportunity for reflecting upon the classic question of the coexistence of war and literature by observing the changing standards within the nobility to define, praise, disseminate and pursue a new model for social success that combined military and literary competencies. Suggested by a moral literature that fairly consistently and critically called upon the instructions to war lords, this phenomenon is first studied from speeches made to soldiers and from the portrait of the good captain presented in military treatises, informed by experience and a knowledge of history whose popularity is confirmed by a study of the libraries of the great officers. We then turn our attention to the literature penned by the nobility which reveals the aristocracy’s own aspirations and how writing – about war, about service to the prince, and in defense of public service careers – then became a structural element of the identity of the warrior-noble.
author Fourcade, Sara
author_facet Fourcade, Sara
author_sort Fourcade, Sara
title De l’utilité des lettres dans la carrière des armes. Guerre et culture écrite en France au xve siècle
title_short De l’utilité des lettres dans la carrière des armes. Guerre et culture écrite en France au xve siècle
title_full De l’utilité des lettres dans la carrière des armes. Guerre et culture écrite en France au xve siècle
title_fullStr De l’utilité des lettres dans la carrière des armes. Guerre et culture écrite en France au xve siècle
title_full_unstemmed De l’utilité des lettres dans la carrière des armes. Guerre et culture écrite en France au xve siècle
title_sort de l’utilité des lettres dans la carrière des armes. guerre et culture écrite en france au xve siècle
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