Автор: Asbridge Thomas Название: Crusades ISBN: 1849836884 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849836883 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 2075 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: An astonishingly assured, convincing and gripping one-volume history of the Crusades to the Holy Land
Автор: Asbridge, Thomas Название: Richard I: The Crusader King (Penguin Monarchs) ISBN: 0141976853 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141976853 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1832 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Richard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol of national identity, he barely spent six months on English soil during a ten-year reign and spoke French as his first language. Contemporaries dubbed him the 'Lionheart', reflecting a carefully cultivated reputation for bravery, prowess and knightly virtue, but this supposed paragon of chivalry butchered close to 3,000 prisoners in cold blood on a single day. And, though revered as Christian Europe's greatest crusader, his grand campaign to the Holy Land failed to recover the city of Jerusalem from Islam. Seeking to reconcile this conflicting evidence, Thomas Asbridge's incisive reappraisal of Richard I's career questions whether the Lionheart really did neglect his kingdom, considers why he devoted himself to the cause of holy war and asks how the memory of his life came to be interwoven with myth. Richard emerges as a formidable warrior-king, possessed of martial genius and a cultured intellect, yet burdened by the legacy of his dysfunctional dynasty and obsessed with the pursuit of honour and renown.
A renowned scholar brings to life medieval England's most celebrated knight, William Marshal--providing an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it.
Caught on the wrong side of an English civil war and condemned by his father to the gallows at age five, William Marshal defied all odds to become one of England's most celebrated knights. Thomas Asbridge's rousing narrative chronicles William's rise, using his life as a prism to view the origins, experiences, and influence of the knight in British history.
In William's day, the brutish realities of war and politics collided with romanticized myths about an Arthurian "golden age," giving rise to a new chivalric ideal. Asbridge details the training rituals, weaponry, and battle tactics of knighthood, and explores the codes of chivalry and courtliness that shaped their daily lives. These skills were essential to survive one of the most turbulent periods in English history--an era of striking transformation, as the West emerged from the Dark Ages.
A leading retainer of five English kings, Marshal served the great figures of this age, from Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine to Richard the Lionheart and his infamous brother John, and was involved in some of the most critical phases of medieval history, from the Magna Carta to the survival of the Angevin/Plantagenet dynasty. Asbridge introduces this storied knight to modern readers and places him firmly in the context of the majesty, passion, and bloody intrigue of the Middle Ages.
The Greatest Knight features 16 pages of black-and-white and color illustrations.
Автор: Asbridge Thomas Название: A Knight`s Tale ISBN: 006226205X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062262059 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 3251 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A Knight's Tale by Thomas Asbridge has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
Описание: From a renowned scholar who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker) comes a major single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land.
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