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  • The Book of the Deeds of the Good Knight Jacques de Lalaing
    Nigel Bryant
    Contains detailed, eyewitness accounts of the most memorable exploits of a man fit to be memorialised as a model of ideal knighthood.’My honoured lord, I am sending you certain recollections of the high and admirable deeds of arms performed in the lists by your late son Jacques de Lalaing... But they are small memories in relation to the greatness of his deeds.’So begins a lett...
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    26,54 €

  • Song of Bertrand Du Guesclin
    Nigel Bryant
    Bertrand du Guesclin is one of the great French heroes of the Hundred Years War, his story every bit as remarkable as Joan of Arc’s. The son of a minor Breton noble, he rose in the 1360s and ’70s to become the Constable of France- a supreme military position, outranking even the princes of the blood royal. Through campaigns ranging from Brittany to Castile he achieved not only ...
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    44,02 €

  • Tournaments at Le Hem and Chauvency
    Nigel Bryant
    The Romance of Le Hem and The Tournament at Chauvency are eyewitness accounts of the famous tournaments held in 1278 at Le Hem on the banks of the Somme in north-eastern France, and in 1285 at Chauvency in Lorraine.Written within weeks of the events they describe, they record in vivid detail not only the jousts and the mêlées but also the entertainments and dramatic interludes ...
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    26,94 €

  • Medieval Romance of Alexander
    Jean Waquelin / Nigel Bryant
    The figure of Alexander the Great haunted the medieval imagination - as much as Arthur, as much as Charlemagne. His story was translated more often in medieval Europe than any work except the Gospels. Yet only small sections of the Alexander Romance have been translated into modern French, and Nigel Bryant's is the first translation into English. The Deeds and Conquests of ...
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    32,59 €

  • History of William Marshal
    Nigel Bryant
    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 subject's life but for the exceptionally stormy period he had had to navigate. It could h...
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    32,91 €

  • Complete Story of the Grail
    Chr Troyes / Nigel Bryant
    The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chretien de Troyes' Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chretien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea to leave. Not only did it inspire quite separate works; his own unfinished poem was ...
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    52,37 €

  • True Chronicles of Jean Le Bel, 1290 - 1360
    Jean Le Bel / Nigel Bryant
    The chronicles of Jean le Bel, written around 1352-61, are one of the most important sources for the beginning of the Hundred Years’ War. They were only rediscovered and published at the beginning of the twentieth century, though Froissart begins his much more famous work by acknowledging his great debt to the 'true chronicles' which Jean le Bel had written. Many of the great p...
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    32,75 €

  • A Perceforest Reader
    Nigel Bryant
    Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as ’an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry’ and ’a mine of folkloric motifs’. Its contents are drawn not only from earlie...
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    27,11 €

  • Merlin and the Grail
    Robert Borgon / Robert De Boron / Tr Nigel Bryant
    It is hard to overstate the importance of this trilogy of prose romances in the development of the legend of the Holy Grail and in the evolution of Arthurian literature as a whole. They give a crucial new impetus to the story of the Grail by establishing a provenance for the sacred vessel - and for the Round Table itself - in the Biblical past; and through the controlling figur...
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    26,83 €

  • The High Book of the Grail
    Nigel Bryant
    ’The High Book of the Grail (Perlesvaus)’ is one of the most fascinating of medieval Arthurian romances, standing apart from the main tradition represented by the great romance cycles on which Malory based his work. Written in the first half ofthe thirteenth century, it represents a totally different view of the legend of the Holy Grail from that found in Wolfram von Eschenbach...
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    32,93 €

  • Perceval
    Chretien De Troyes / Nigel Bryant
    Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval is the most important single Arthurian romance. It contains the very first mention of the mysterious grail, later to become the Holy Grail and the focal point of the spiritual quest of the knights of Arthur’s court. Chrétien left the poem unfinished, but the extraordinary and intriguing theme of the Grail was too good to leave, and other poets conti...
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    32,68 €

  • Legend of the Grail
    Nigel Bryant
    The Grail legends have been appropriated by novelists as diverse as Umberto Eco and Dan Brown yet very few have read for themselves the original stories from which they came. All the mystery and drama of the Arthurian world are embodied in the extraordinary tales of Perceval, Gawain, Lancelot and Galahad in pursuit of the Holy Grail. The original romances, full of bewildering c...
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    32,84 €