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"Þe herte þe fote þe eye to accorde:" Procedural Writing and Three Middle English Manuscripts of Martial Instruction

dc.contributor.advisorWright, Sharonen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKlaassen, Franken_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMcCannon, Johnen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLiu, Yinen_US
dc.creatorGeldof, Marken_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-29T06:38:56Z
dc.date.available2013-01-29T06:38:56Z
dc.date.created2011-08en_US
dc.date.issued2013-01-22en_US
dc.date.submittedAugust 2011en_US
dc.description.abstractLondon's British Library contains three manuscripts that record instruction in the use of personal arms in late medieval Middle English and are the only examples of this genre in English before 1595. These texts are part of a larger corpus of medieval European fight-texts but have not received detailed study.The aim is to explain how and why these texts approach their subject of instruction as they do. These fight-texts have not been studied in relation to fight-instruction or other textual forms of procedural or performance knowledge. Explaining the factors that influenced the authorial process can give us a better understanding of late-medieval attitudes towards martial knowledge, technical and practical writing, and the process of adaptation from oral knowledge to text.The Middle English manuscripts are described and compared to the larger corpus of German, Italian and French manuscript instruction in personal arms. These texts are also compared to other types of procedural and declarative writing, the debates over the classification of knowledge, and oral and text-based instruction such as recipe literature and dance notation.Outside the general subject matter of the us of arms, the Middle English fight-texts have little in common with their continental counterparts. This is due to the particular circumstances that determined how authors in fifteenth-century England approached procedural knowledge. The Middle English texts bear a strong similarity to contemporary English texts of dance and recipe literature. Comparison shows that the German and Italian fight-texts were influenced by different genres. This shows that the Middle English authors chose to adapt their oral knowledge to text for different reasons and from different points of reference than others at the same time.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2011-08-77en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.subjectMartial Cultureen_US
dc.subjectTechnical Writingen_US
dc.subjectSwordsmanshipen_US
dc.subjectFechtbucheren_US
dc.subjectFencingen_US
dc.subjectEnglish Historyen_US
dc.title"Þe herte þe fote þe eye to accorde:" Procedural Writing and Three Middle English Manuscripts of Martial Instructionen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewanen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US

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