Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Warriors Waiting for the Word
- Chapter One The Early Romances and the Transformative Touch of Violence
- Chapter Two Knightly Women and the Imagination of Battle in The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems
- Chapter Three Sigurd the Volsung and the Parameters of Manliness
- Chapter Four Crossing the River of Violence: The Germanic Antiwars and the Uncivilized Uses of Work and Play
- Chapter Five ‘All for the Cause’: Fellowship, Sacrifice and Fruitful War
- Afterword ‘Hopeful Strife and Blameless Peace’
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Warriors Waiting for the Word
- Chapter One The Early Romances and the Transformative Touch of Violence
- Chapter Two Knightly Women and the Imagination of Battle in The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems
- Chapter Three Sigurd the Volsung and the Parameters of Manliness
- Chapter Four Crossing the River of Violence: The Germanic Antiwars and the Uncivilized Uses of Work and Play
- Chapter Five ‘All for the Cause’: Fellowship, Sacrifice and Fruitful War
- Afterword ‘Hopeful Strife and Blameless Peace’
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- William Morris and the Uses of Violence, 1856–1890 , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2013