History of William Marshal 9781783273034

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Автор: Bryant Nigel
Название: History of William Marshal
ISBN: 9781783273034
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

Литературоведение: Классическое, раннего, высокого и позднего средневековья до 1500 г.

ISBN-10: 1783273038
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 259
Вес: 0.42 кг.
Дата издания: 20.04.2018
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 4 line drawings, black and white
Размер: 233 x 156 x 14
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, HISTORY / Medieval
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Поставляется из: Англии
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The History of William Marshal is the earliest surviving biography of a medieval knight - indeed it is the first biography of a layman in the vernacular in European history. Composed in verse in the 1220s just a few years after his death, it is a major primary source not simply for its subjects life but for the exceptionally stormy period he had had to navigate. It could hardly be other than major, given that its subject was regarded as the greatest knight who ever lived and that he rose in the course of his long life to be a central figure in the reigns of no fewer than four kings: Henry II, Richard Lionheart, John and Henry III. This remarkable biography was brought to light in the late nineteenth century thanks to a determined hunt for the manuscript by its first editor, the eminent French scholar Paul Meyer. It gives a vigorous account of events, full of vivid detail and passionate comment and frequent flashes of humour. And it gives revelatory insights into the attitudes and perceptions of the time, especially into the experience and nature of warfare in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. But while its quality and value have been long acknowledged, the poem has sometimes been deemed less than impartial and objective. Commissioned as it was by Marshals own son, and intended not least for his familys fond enjoyment, it is little surprise that the poems adulation of its subject is rarely qualified by regrets for failings or what are nowadays referred to as errors of judgement. Marshal is presented as - to all intents and purposes - flawless: not simply a magnificent warrior, supreme in tournaments and battles alike, but a paragon of the key chivalric virtues of prowess, largesse and unfailing loyalty. But this is not surprising: the idea of the fallible hero is a modern invention, and the writer of this work - like Marshal himself - was steeped in the old ideals of the chansons de geste as well as the more recent ideology of chivalry. In any case, there can be no denying that Marshals achievements - and sometimes his behaviour - were by any standards extraordinary and seen as such by his contemporaries, and the poem corresponds with what we know of his life from other sources. Few other medieval biographies have the immediacy of this celebration of Marshals career, based not least on stories told by Marshal himself and those close to him, and it is made available here for the first time in a modern prose translation.

History of William Marshal, Bryant Nigel