LEADER 03243nam 22004572 450 001 9910151576003321 005 20170811033847.0 010 $a1-78204-901-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781782049012 035 $a(CKB)3710000000951930 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4721176 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781782049012 035 $a(DE-B1597)674168 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781782049012 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000951930 100 $a20161115d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe chivalric biography of Boucicaut, Jean II Le Meingre /$ftranslated with notes and introduction by Craig Taylor and Jane H.M. Taylor 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 08$a1-78327-166-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aJean le Meingre, Maréchal 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 the Green 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 is also 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, which came 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 is a highly important contribution to our understanding of chivalric mentalities and attitudes in late-medieval France. It is presented with an introduction and notes.

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