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Chargement... The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince (1979)par Richard Barber
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Mainly the campaigns of the Black Prince, with a very little bit of life for flavour. Principally about the France campaigns (with so so much burning... amazing there's any of France left), The letters and diaries are fascinating, the Chandos Herald account is a little tedious. Beautiful Folio Soc book, well presented. A good compilation of memoirs, letters, and other sources describing the adventures of Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince, in France and Spain. Includes the Chandos Herald account. A very accessible translation of documents, but not intended as a light romp through history. A good reference source, except it was published without an index, making it marginally useful as a reference. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Edward of Woodstock, eldest son of Edward III, known as the Black Prince, is one of those heroes of history books so impressive as to seem slightly unreal. At sixteen he played a leading part in the fighting at Crécy; at twenty-six he captured the king of France at Poitiers; and eleven years later he restored Pedro of Castile to histhrone at the battle of Najera. His exploits were chronicled by Jean Froissart, but Froissart was writing three or four decades after the events he describes. There are other sources much closer to events, and it is on these that the present volume draws. Most immediate are the reports sent home by the prince's companions-in-arms and his own letters, which graphically convey the hardships and difficulties of campaigning, its dangers and sheer fatigue. These are followed by campaign diaries and the story of Crécy and other exploits of the prince's from Geoffrey le Baker's chronicle (c.1358-60), itself drawing on similar letters and diaries. Finally there is the chronicle of Chandos Herald, which shows the prince as he appeared to an English writer in the 1380s. Each of the sources is discussed in detail in the introductions to the extracts. RICHARD BARBER's books on the age of chivalry include The Knight and Chivalry, Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, King Arthur: Hero and Legend and Arthurian Legends. He has also written the Companion Guide to Gascony and the Dordogne, the background to so many of the Black Prince's exploits, and the Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)942.037History and Geography Europe England and Wales England Plantagenet 1154-1399 Edward III 1327-77Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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This is a selection of original documents relating to Edward’s life – letters home from him and people in his entourage, and more complete documents from contemporaries Geoffrey le Baker and “the Chandos Herald”. They’re hagiographic glorifications of Edward, and don’t give much information on his personality or military strategy, but they’re where anybody would start. Readable enough, given the 14th-century language. A map of France in the front matter but no notes or index. ( )