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A virtuous knight : defending Marshal Boucicaut (Jean II Le Meingre, 1366-1421) / Craig Taylor.
Van Pelt Library DC101.7.B6 T39 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Craig (Historian), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boucicaut, approximately 1366-1421.
- Boucicaut.
- Livre des fais du bon messire Jehan le Maingre.
- Chivalry--History--To 1500.
- Chivalry.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : York Medieval Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- The 'Livre des fais du bon messire Jehan le Maingre' (1409) is one of the most famous chivalric biographies of the Middle Ages. It presents Jean II Le Meingre, known as Boucicaut (1366-1421), as an ideal knight and role model, and has frequently been seen by modern scholars as a last-ditch effort to defend traditional chivalric values that were supposedly in decline. Here, however, Craig Taylor argues that the biography is a much more complex and interesting text, fusing traditional notions of chivalry with the most fashionable new ideas in circulation at the French court at the start of the fifteenth century. Rather than a nostalgic criticism of contemporary knighthood, it should be seen as a showcase of the latest ideas on chivalry, written to renew the enthusiasm of the great French princes for a man who was in grave danger of falling out of favour: its purpose was to celebrate and to defend a beleaguered Boucicaut against his critics at the royal court, and to explain his actions as governor of Genoa, his failed crusading enterprises in the Eastern Mediterranean and his unsuccessful efforts to broker a solution to the Papal Schism.
- Contents:
- 1 The Life of Jean II Le Meingre, dit Boucicaut (1366-1421) p. 11
- 2 The Livre des fais du bon messire Jehan le Maingre p. 48
- 3 Defending the Marshal p. 74
- 4 A Flower of Knighthood p. 100
- 5 The Virtues, the Good Habits and the Good Disposition of the Marshal p. 130.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781903153918
- 1903153913
- OCLC:
- 1080425638
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