Bøger af Steven Muhlberger

"I wrote all down, whether it was late or early, that posterity might have the advantage of it, for there is nothing like writing for the preservation of events." Jean Froissart was a cleric, a poet and historian whose chief subject was the Hundred Years War. Froissart's writings were very popular with readers in his own lifetime, and have been ever since. In this volume Steven Muhlberger, professor of history, has collected excerpts from Froissart's Chronicles which will show you why Jean is known as "the Secretary of Chivalry."

Murder, Rape and Treason: Judicial Combats in the Late Middle Ages contains accounts of some of the most sanguine, unusual or controversial judicial duels of the late Middle Ages. These duels-formal, limited combats-are among the best-known medieval deeds of arms, and were an important part of late medieval warrior culture.

Steven Muhlberger turns his pen to the final section of Charny's work to reveal what it tells us about how medieval 'men-at-arms' conceived of themselves as a class, at precisely the moment that their world was undergoing a series of sweeping changes that would forever change the profession of arms.

"Translations in Chapters 3 and 5 courtesy Will McLean, used with permission"--Title page verso.