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"In marvelous mailes": Armor and Ornament in the Alliterative <em>Morte Arthure</em>

Panel: 
Comparative Media: Armor/Exoskeleton: Historical Mediations of Touch
Abstract: 

This paper will discuss the role that late medieval armor technology and aesthetics played in questioning battlefield ethics, as well as the related subject of the pleasure derived by ornamentalized violence in late medieval English knightly literature.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Andrea
Last Name: 
Denny-Brown
Institution: 
University of California, Riverside