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16%OFFTimothy Guard - Chivalry, Kingship and Crusade: The English Experience in the Fourteenth Century - 9781783270910 - V9781783270910
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Chivalry, Kingship and Crusade: The English Experience in the Fourteenth Century

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Description for Chivalry, Kingship and Crusade: The English Experience in the Fourteenth Century Paperback. A fresh perspective on the Crusade shows its ideal and practice flourishing in the fourteenth century. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBWC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
The central theme of this book is the largely untold story of English knighthood's ongoing obsession with the crusade fight during the age of Chaucer, high chivalry and the famous battles of the Hundred Years War. After combat in France and Scotland, fighting crusades was the main and a widespread experience of English chivalry in the fourteenth century, drawing in noblemen of the highest rank, as well as knights chasing renown and the jobbing esquire. The author exposes a thick seam of military engagement along the perimeters of Christendom; details of participants and campaigns are chronicled - in ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
460g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783270910
SKU
V9781783270910
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99-50

Reviews for Chivalry, Kingship and Crusade: The English Experience in the Fourteenth Century
It is difficult to do justice to the sheer breadth and richness of Guard's work..[It] is a wonderful treasury of detail on the activities and motivation of English crusaders and their careers in royal service, the practicalities of travel, literary reflections of crusading, the significance of the Holy Land in the ideology of the English monarchy, and much more. FRANCIA ... Read more

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