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The Chivalric Biography of Boucicaut, Jean II le Meingre (Hardcover)
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The Chivalric Biography of Boucicaut, Jean II le Meingre (Hardcover)
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First English translation of the chivalric biography of one of
France's leading figures of the middle ages. Jean le Meingre,
Marechal Boucicaut (1364-1421), was the very flower of chivalry.
From his earliest years at the royal court in Paris, he
distinguished himself in knightly pursuits: sorties against
seditious French nobles, ceremonial jousts against the English
enemy, crusading in Tunisia and Prussia, the composition of courtly
verses, and the establishment of a chivalric order for the defence
of ladies, the Order of the Enterprise of the White Lady of
theGreen Shield. He was named Marshal of France at the age of only
27. His chivalric biography, finished in 1409, is one of the most
important accounts of the life of a knight from the Middle Ages.
Whilst full of praise, it isalso highly partisan and carefully
selective; it glosses over the darker, much less successful, side
of his career - in particular his participation in the catastrophic
Nicopolis crusade (1396) and his governorship of Genoa, whichcame
to an end shortly after the completion of the biography, when a
rebellion forced him to leave the city, five years before his
capture at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and death in England in
1421. This first English translation makes available to a wider
audience a text that sheds light on the history of France, on
crusading in Prussia and the Mediterranean, and on the complicated
politics of Italy and the papacy during the Great Schism. It isa
highly important contribution to our understanding of chivalric
mentalities and attitudes in late-medieval France. It is presented
with an introduction and notes. Dr CRAIG TAYLOR is Reader in
Medieval History at theUniversity of York; JANE H.M. TAYLOR is
Emeritus Professor of French at Durham University.
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