《William Marshal : The Flower of Chivalry》是1987年2月Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Georges Duby。
基本介紹
- 外文名：William Marshal : The Flower of Chivalry
- 作者：Georges Duby
- 出版時間：1987年2月
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780394751542
內容簡介
Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians,has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imaginationWilliam Marshal, adviser to the Plantagenets, knightextraordinaire, the flower of chivalry. A marvel of historicalreconstruction, William Marshal is based on a biographical poemwritten in the thirteenth century, and offers an evocation ofchivalric life -- the contests and tournaments, the rites of war,the daily details of medieval existence -- unlike any we have everseen.
An enchanting and profoundly instructive book....Owing in signalpart to the imaginative scholarship of Georges Duby, darkness ismore and more receding from the Dark Ages.
George Steiner
New Yorker
"A small masterpiece of its genre....It is a splendid story andProfessor Duby tells it splendidly....Duby has reconstructed aliving picture of a particular sector of society at a crucialmoment, at the brink of great change. The vividness, the intimacy,and the historical perception with which he presents his picture ofthe fascinating and eventful life of the Marshal, and of the worldin which he lived, will win him readers not just among scholars,but among all who are drawn by the unending interest of thehumanity of the human past."
New York Review of Books
"Duby succeeds wonderfully....Everything works."
New York Times Book Review -- Review
