Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature

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

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