Chaucer's Knight

Chaucer's Knight
Jones Terry
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Paperback
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24 Jun 2021 UK
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9780413777348
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Since it was first published in 1980, Terry Jones' s study of Geoffrey Chaucer' s Knight has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular and controversial books ever to hit the world of Chaucer scholarship. Jones questions the accepted view of the Knight as a paragon of Christian chivalry, and argues that he is in fact no more than a professional mercenary who has spent his life in the service of petty despots and tyrants around the world. This edition includes astonishing new evidence from Jones, who argues that the character of the Knight was actually based on Sir John Hawkwood (d. 1394), a marauding English freebooter and mercenary who pillaged his way across northern Italy during the 14th century, running protection rackets on the Italian Dukes and creating a vast fortune in the process.
"' Terry Jones' s brilliant work of literary and historical detection. In launching his attack on this renowned and almost sanctified culture-hero Mr Jones the medievalist has matched any of the acts of spirited irreverence which he has performed in his other capacity' The Observer * Jones' s analysis of Chaucer' s text is painstaking, his pursuit of the historical examples is thorough, his conclusions appropriate' Peter Ackroyd, The Spectator * ' A richly detailed and endlessly fascinating documentation of his age' The Listener * ' A serious and original contribution to Chaucer studies' British Book News * ' In this completely new and convincing analysis, Terry Jones brings fourteenth-century England vividly to life while giving the reader the satisfaction of seeing the complex jigsaw puzzle of the Knight solved, piece by tiny piece. It is a masterly and exciting book' The Economist"
Terry Jones is the author of several acclaimed works on the Middle Ages including Terry Jones' s Medieval Lives and Who Murdered Chaucer?
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780413777348
Published: 24 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Methuen Publishing
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 340

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