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In a beautifully crafted work packed with insight, Richard emerges as a learned and deft politician, but a figure who also strove to prove his knightly prowess and crusading devotion. As an eyewitness to the 13th-century campaign, Joinville was able to pack his text with intimate details of his experiences, and he was often disarmingly honest about the horrors of medieval war.
The first Duke of Cornwall, Edward was a military genius obsessed by notions of chivalry and Arthurian legend. The treatise sought to establish a code of behaviour for medieval knights, espousing the ideals of valour and courtesy, yet he wrote at a time when the crippling expenses associated with knighthood including armour, weaponry and horses meant that the warrior class was undergoing a recruitment crisis.
The shift in military culture that began during the lifetimes of de Charny and Edward the Black Prince was perfectly epitomised by the infamous career of Sir John Hawkwood , the English mercenary who made his name and fortune fighting in the war-torn, pestilence-ridden world of late 14th-century Europe. With a marked capacity for ruthlessness, Hawkwood was distrusted by many of his employers, but that did not stop him acquiring wealth and influence to rival that of a prince.
Worth reading for the glimpse it provides of a late medieval world still fascinated by the notions of chivalry and courtly love, yet conscious of the destructive violence associated with the warrior class. Thanks for telling us about the problem.
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Apr 03, Helen rated it liked it Shelves: Fourth and final book in the Tales of King Arthur Ladybird series. This was a collection of very short stories. As if a whole long series had been commissioned, but they decided they weren't popular enough to justify the extra editions. As an eyewitness to the 13th-century campaign, Joinville was able to pack his text with intimate details of his experiences, and he was often disarmingly honest about the horrors of medieval war.
The first Duke of Cornwall, Edward was a military genius obsessed by notions of chivalry and Arthurian legend. The treatise sought to establish a code of behaviour for medieval knights, espousing the ideals of valour and courtesy, yet he wrote at a time when the crippling expenses associated with knighthood including armour, weaponry and horses meant that the warrior class was undergoing a recruitment crisis. The shift in military culture that began during the lifetimes of de Charny and Edward the Black Prince was perfectly epitomised by the infamous career of Sir John Hawkwood , the English mercenary who made his name and fortune fighting in the war-torn, pestilence-ridden world of late 14th-century Europe.
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With a marked capacity for ruthlessness, Hawkwood was distrusted by many of his employers, but that did not stop him acquiring wealth and influence to rival that of a prince. Worth reading for the glimpse it provides of a late medieval world still fascinated by the notions of chivalry and courtly love, yet conscious of the destructive violence associated with the warrior class.
Writing in the 15th century, as the middle ages drew to a close, Malory distilled and adapted the accumulated medieval legends of King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and the Knights of the Round Table and established a new canon of Arthurian tales.