The English Literature of Nájera (1367) from Battlefield Dispatch to the Poets.
- Author/Editor
- Carlson, David R.
- Title
- The English Literature of Nájera (1367) from Battlefield Dispatch to the Poets.
- Published
- Carlson, David R. "The English Literature of Nájera (1367) from Battlefield Dispatch to the Poets." In John Gower in England and Iberia: Manuscripts, Influences, Reception. Ed. Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and R. F. Yeager. Publications of the John Gower Society X. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2014. Pp. 89-101.
- Review
- Carlson discusses accounts of the English invasion of Castile in 1367 that, like Gower's pro-Lancastrian "Cronica tripertita" (1400), may be analyzed as examples of state propaganda. These include: a French letter presumably written by Edward the Black Prince, who headed the invasion, to his wife Joan, presenting information on battlefield casualties and prisoners; a more detailed account of the same, included in a French verse biography of Edward; a Latin panegyric on John of Gaunt's heroism during the battle, by a Cistercian poet, Walter Peterborough; and another Latin panegyric, this one on the Black Prince himself, entitled "Gloria cunctorum." This last account of the siege of Nájera "is notably short on information" (95), but should be better known to scholars. An appendix presents a critical edition of the account based on three manuscripts and the text printed in Thomas Wright's "Political Poems and Songs Relating to English History" (1859). [MPK. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 42.2]
- Date
- 2014
- Gower Subjects
- Cronica Tripertita