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8 de jun. de 2018 · William the Marshal began life as the fourth son of a minor lord who was hereditary royal master marshal. From such modest beginnings, he rose to become earl of Pembroke (from 1189), through marriage to the heiress Isabella, and ultimately regent of England (1216–19) at the time of Henry III's minority, a spectacular example of the open-endedness of English aristocratic society at this point.
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, The History of William Marshal. Translated by Nigel Bryant, Woodbridge (The Boydell Press) 2016, XVI–243 p., 4 maps, ISBN 9781783271313, GBP 50,00. rezensiert von/compte rendu rédigé par Richard W. Kaeuper, Rochester, NY
The writing of biography was not a medieval art ; unfortunately no-one told the biographer of William Marshal this when he began his work in 1224. They also told him nothing about the purposes and uses of propaganda, and yet he was employed consciously as a propagandist. And it is his use of propaganda (or spin as the contemporary English usage ...
1 de ago. de 2016 · 4.33. 24 ratings6 reviews. The History of William Marshal is the earliest surviving biography of a medieval knight - indeed it is the first biography of a layman in the vernacular in European history. Composed in verse in the 1220s just a few years after his death, it is a major primary source not simply for its subject's life but for the ...
1 de ago. de 2016 · The History of William Marshal is the earliest surviving biography of a medieval knight -- indeed it is the first biography of a layman in the vernacular in European history. Composed in verse in the 1220s just a few years after his death, it is a major primary source not simply for its subject's life but for the exceptionally stormy period he had had to navigate.
8 de abr. de 2018 · The History of William Marshal is the earliest surviving biography of a medieval knight – indeed it is the first biography of a layman in the vernacular in European history. Composed in verse in the 1220s just a few years after his death, it is a major primary source not simply for its subject’s life but for the exceptionally stormy period he had had to navigate.
20 de abr. de 2018 · The History of William Marshal. Paperback – April 20, 2018. The career of William Marshal (1146/7-12), who rose from being the penniless, landless younger son of a middle-ranking nobleman to be regent of England in the minority of Henry III, is one of the most extraordinary stories of theMiddle Ages. His biography was completed shortly after ...
