Chivalry, Kingship and Crusade by Timothy Guard - 9781843838241

Chivalry, Kingship and CrusadeThe English Experience in the Fourteenth Century\nAuthor(s): Timothy Guard\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781843838241, 978-1843838241\nSynopsis\nA fresh perspective on the Crusade shows its ideal and practice flourishing in the fourteenth century.\n\nThe central theme of this book is the largely untold story of English knighthood's ongoing obsession with the crusade fight during the age of Chaucer, \""high chivalry\"" and the famous battles of the Hundred Years War. After combat in France and Scotland, fighting crusades was the main and a widespread experience of English chivalry in the fourteenth century, drawing in noblemen of the highest rank, as well as knights chasing renown and the jobbing esquire. The author exposes a thick seam of military engagement along the perimeters of Christendom; details of participants and campaigns are chronicled - in many cases for the first t.