Political Propaganda in the Aftermath of the Battle of Bannockburn
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21418587 |
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| Authors | Sibilla Siano (0009-0009-9547-1377, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Pages | 9-45 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nottingham Medieval Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0078-2122 • E-ISSN: 2507-0444 |
| Publisher | Brepols Publishers NV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1484/j.nms.5.144830 |
| OpenAlex | W4407744647 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
The anonymous fourteenth-century English Chronicle of Lanercost reports a poem in Latin hexameters written in the aftermath of the battle of Bannockburn. This same poem also appears in Walter Bower’s fifteenth-century Scotichronicon. However, in the two chronicles, the lines of this poem are neither identical nor presented in the same order. A comparison of the two versions reveals the extent to which moral discourse, chivalric code, and political prophecy are intermingled with the account of the battle in order to provide different interpretative keys of triumph and defeat. These differences can thus offer an insight into the practice of political propaganda
Ancient history · Battle · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Highly cited | No |
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