Chronicles of King Arthur

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Jean-Marie Martin

"Ce volume présente la réédition de trente articles, contributions à des colloques et à d’autres volumes collectifs, publiés entre 1980 et 2009, et rassemblés de façon thématique, indépendamment de la date de leur première publication. Ils sont regroupés en deux sections ; la première (nos 1-12) a pour objet l’Italie méridionale byzantine et l’action de l’Empire et de l’Église byzantine dans cette région ; la seconde (nos 13-30) est consacrée à certains aspects de l’histoire médiévale de l’Italie méridionale, lombarde et normande aussi bien que byzantine, et regroupe des textes qui concernent l’économie (nos 13-18), la société – du droit personnel aux pratiques sociales (nos 19-22), certains éléments institutionnels (nos 23-25), enfin quelques aspects de l’histoire religieuse – du culte des images à l’hagiographie et aux cartulaires (nos 26-30). On s’est efforcé de mettre à jour la bibliographie et, parfois, de mettre en perspective certains points qui ont fait l’objet de recherches ultérieures."--

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Andrea Hopkins

"Read again, in the voices of the original medieval authors, those tales of Arthur and Merlin, Queen Guinevere and Isolde, the Knighta of the Round Table, the Quest for the Holy Grail, codes of chivalry, troubadours, medieval tournaments, and much more."--Jacket.

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Margaret Hodges

A biography of the 15th century knight who collected stories about King Arthur and his knights and rewrote them into a work that was to influence poets and writers throughout the ages.

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Evan S. Connell

"The Crusades have begun. Wave upon wave of Christian pilgrims rush to assault the growing power of Moslems in the Holy Lands. Battles will continue for the next two hundred years. Every able man becomes a soldier of the Cross. When a man is prevented by old age or ill health, he sends his son. Women, too, join to fight alongside their husbands and fathers. Two centuries long, this common cause is the defining war of what was becoming the spirit of the Western world.". "The author has commented, "I think of this as a book about the Crusades, not an 'historical novel' - a term that suggests imaginary experiences and unlikely conversations. Monologues and dialogues in this book are paraphrased or condensed from those in medieval documents. Every meeting, every conversation, every triumph or defeat, no matter how small, was recorded centuries ago.""--BOOK JACKET.