This work should prove to be a joy and a delight to both novices and experts. Its depth of coverage within its topics places it well beyond more general works. . . . Its] usefulness in the areas of history, literature, and the arts can justify its purchase by any library with patrons whose interests are set in the medieval period. RQ
Most historians find a work such as this valuable, but could bot have compiled it themselves; the fifteen years of research which produced this book would have reduced most of us to babbling, drooling, burnt-out cases, if not to...
This work should prove to be a joy and a delight to both novices and experts. Its depth of coverage within its topics places it well beyond more ge...
A complementary companion to the author's "Dictionary of Medieval Knighthood: Concepts and Terms" (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986), this takes the Norman conquest of England in 1066 as its starting point and the late fourteenth century, marked by the unsuccessful revolt of the English peasantry in 1381, as its concluding point. The categories named in the subtitle encompass knights, nobles, rulers, clerics, fictional characters, literary works, chansons de geste, castles, battles, treaties, legal terms, and the authors whose works historical and fictional have transmitted the medieval...
A complementary companion to the author's "Dictionary of Medieval Knighthood: Concepts and Terms" (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986), this takes the N...