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Translation of the manuscript of the Cambridge University Library (Add. 7071) which comprises the Balain section of the Continuation of the Merlin from the Romance of the Grail.
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Publisher : Evanston [Ill.] : Northwestern University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Translation of the manuscript of the Cambridge University Library (Add. 7071) which comprises the Balain section of the Continuation of the Merlin from the Romance of the Grail.
Author :
Publisher : Evanston [Ill.] : Northwestern University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Translation of the manuscript of the Cambridge University Library (Add. 7071) which comprises the Balain section of the Continuation of the Merlin from the Romance of the Grail.
Author : Balin et Balan. Anglais
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Page : pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Robert (de Boron.)
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Richard W. Kaeuper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0199244588
Medieval Europe was a rapidly developing society with a problem of violent disorder. Professor Kaeuper's original and authoritative study reveals that chivalry was just as much a part of this problem as it was its solution. Chivalry praised heroic violence by knights, and fused such displaysof prowess with honour, piety, high-status, and attractiveness to women. Though the vast body of chivalric literature praised chivalry as necessary to civilization, most texts also worried over knightly violence, criticized the ideals and practices of chivalry, and often proposed reforms. Theknights themselves joined the debate, absorbing some reforms, ignoring others, sometimes proposing their own. The interaction of chivalry with major governing institutions ("church" and "state") emerging at that time was similarly complex: kings and clerics both needed and feared the force of theknighthood. This fascinating book lays bare these conflicts and paradoxes which surrounded the concept of chivalry in medieval Europe.
Author : Helena P. Schrader
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1627871942
Balian, the landless son of a local baron, goes to Jerusalem to seek his fortune. Instead, he finds himself trapped into serving the young prince suffering from leprosy, an apparent sentence to obscurity and death. But the unexpected death of King Amalric makes the leper boy King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, and Balian’s prospects begin to improve. The Byzantine princess Maria Comnena is just thirteen years old when she arrives in the Kingdom of Jerusalem at her great uncle’s orders to cement the alliance between the two Christian kingdoms in the East. The child wife of a man almost three times her own age, she is despite her excellent education and intelligence little more than a pretty doll in the eyes of her husband. When she fails to produce a male heir for the desperate king, her marriage becomes a gilded prison. Until suddenly the king is dead and Maria finds herself a wealthy widow at just twenty years of age. Meanwhile, the charismatic Kurdish leader Saladin has united the forces of Islam and vowed to drive the Christians into the sea. While King Baldwin IV—and Balian—struggle to save the Holy Land for Christendom by whatever means they can, the internal rivalries of Templars and Hospitallers, the advocates of offense and defense, and the bitter rivalries of barons threaten to tear the kingdom apart.
Author : Fanni Bogdanow
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Arthurian romances
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Author : Dhira B. Mahoney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131794724X
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Helena P. Schrader
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1627878173
Book I in the Award-Winning Jerusalem Trilogy B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree, Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice Hollywood made him a blacksmith; Arab chronicles said he was "like a king." He served a leper, but defied Richard the Lionheart. He was a warrior and a diplomat both. This is the first book of a three-part biography of the historical Balian d'Ibelin.
Author : W R J Barron
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1786837412
This first comprehensive treatment of Arthurian literature in the English language up until the end of the Middle Ages is now available for the first time in paperback. English people think of Arthur as their own – stamped on the landscape in scores of place-names, echoed in the names of princes even today. Yet some would say the English were the historical Arthur’s bitterest enemies and usurpers of his heritage. The process by which Arthurian legends have become an important part of England’s cultural heritage is traced in this book. Previous studies have concentrated on the handful of chivalric romances, which have given the impression that Arthur is a hero of romantic escapism. This study seeks to provide a more comprehensive and insightful look at the English Arthurian legends and how they evolved. It focuses primarily upon the literary aspects of Arthurian legend, but it also makes some important political and social observations.