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.

Autorentext
Jennifer Feather is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Inhalt
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': Malory and the PreModern Self Astrae Returned to Heaven: Spenser, Justice, and Combat