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    The Book of Geoffroi de Charny: with the Livre Charny

    Posted By: roxul
    Date: 26 Dec 2023 05:17:32
    The Book of Geoffroi de Charny: with the Livre Charny

    Ian Wilson, "The Book of Geoffroi de Charny: with the Livre Charny"
    English | ISBN: 1783275855 | 2021 | 200 pages | PDF | 18 MB

    The poem known as the Livre Charny (Charny's Book), by the fourteenth-century French knight Geoffroi de Charny, has never been published, Nigel Bryant's brilliant new translation of this long-neglected poem, based on a hitherto overlooked original Charny manuscript housed in Oxford, vividly conveys Charny's self-deprecating and extraordinarily down-to-earth attitudes towards the knightly career.

    Charny is surprisingly blunt in his descriptions of the mishaps and mortal dangers to be expected, from losing in a tournament, to homesickness on crusade, to being concussed whilst attempting to scale an enemy tower. Nothing else quite like it is to be found in medieval literature.

    Ian Wilson's introduction provides a markedly revised understanding of Charny's career as tournament performer, serving soldier, crusader, councillor, and finally royal standard-bearer: he was killed at Poitiers in 1356.

    Bryant and Wilson also argue that











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