The Book of Geoffroi de Charny: With the Livre Charny

The Livre Charny (Charny's Book), by the 14th century French knight Geoffroi de Charny, translated here by...
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Author: Ian Wilson
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The Book of Geoffroi de Charny: With the Livre Charny by Wilson, Ian

The Book of Geoffroi de Charny: With the Livre Charny

€258,39

The Book of Geoffroi de Charny: With the Livre Charny

€258,39
Author: Ian Wilson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The Livre Charny (Charny's Book), by the 14th century French knight Geoffroi de Charny, translated here by Nigel Bryant with an introduction by Ian Wilson.

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 Charny's Book is so different in style from the Book of Chivalry, also attributed to him, that the latter is unlikely to be by the same author. Using the evidence of a hitherto unnoticed manuscript in Madrid, they show that the latter is likely to be a work of the 1380s composed by Charny's son of the same name, possibly as a kind of memorial to his heroic father.

Author: Ian Wilson
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 04/30/2021
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781783275854

About the Author
Bryant, Nigel: - Nigel Bryant was head of drama at Marlborough College.

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