A bright, readable, well-referenced translation of Ramon Llull's classic spiritual exposition of knighthood [which] will be especially valuable to students.. will be extremely valuable to scholars and students studying knighthood in the Later Middle Ages.
CRUSADES
Fallow's translation will make it possible for students to read and digest this critical treatise. To describe Fallow's translation as merely accessible ... Read moreand thus suited only for students, however, is to overlook what is a rigorous and scholarly translation. Indeed, Fallows succeeds in providing a translation that stays true to the original work and recaptures the essence of the author's original prose.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
Fallows has done a fine job in this edition. The prose is straightforward and plain-spoken, easily understandable to a modern reader impatient with period flourishes. ... It's an accessible and valuable scholarly resource for fields as diverse as medieval philosophy and military history.
COMITATUS
[Provides] valuable insight into the mindset of the late Medieval knight and the expectations of Chivalric society.
HISTORY OF WAR.ORG
Over the centuries that it was read this brief book retained its relevance but how that applied must have changed and so Llull has provided even the modern reader with a lens through which to view the medieval world. We must thank Professor Fallows for polishing up this lens and making it available for viewing.
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