{"product_id":"the-medievalism-of-lawrence-of-arabia-paperback","title":"The Medievalism of Lawrence of Arabia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMalcolm D. Allen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eM. D. Allen's study deals with T. E. Lawrence's lifelong interest in the medieval world, especially medieval literature, and its considerable influence on his view of himself and of the Arabs with whom he fought in an archaic theater of war, and hence his own literary production. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Medievalism of Lawrence of Arabia\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the influence Lawrence's interest in medieval life and literature had on his attitudes toward life in general and--in content, theme, and diction--on his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eSeven Pillars of Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e, in particular. Allen begins with a brief biography of Lawrence--his early interest in things medieval and his somewhat controversial BA thesis on crusader castles. Allen then reveals the extent to which Lawrence's ideas about honor, warfare, and chivalry in the Arab war against the Turks were shaped by his reading in medieval writings such as Malory's \u003ci\u003eMorte d'Arthur\u003c\/i\u003e. (Both, as he makes clear, were warrior societies dominated by horses.) Lawrence's reading in the nineteenth-century medievalism is also explored, as in Tennyson's \u003ci\u003eIdylls of the King\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ruskin's writing on art, where the parallel between Ruskin's ideas on ornament and Lawrence's ideas about the dignity of war is demonstrated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllen then identifies the medieval and neomedieval texts of \u003ci\u003eSeven Pillars of Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e and shows why and to what effect Lawrence borrowed from chivalric, neochivalric, and pseudochivalric works, and sometimes transmogrified them, revealing Lawrence's greatest inspiration to be an English translation of the \u003ci\u003eMoallakat\u003c\/i\u003e (which is, so to speak, the Arabic \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e). Allen sheds new light on many aspects of the influence of medievalism on Lawrence's thought and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45306548879462,"sku":"9780271026121","price":83.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/aUxlQjRyVG93NWxwR1pQeVdBMlR3Zz09.webp?v=1774083033","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-medievalism-of-lawrence-of-arabia-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}