by Georges Duby · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213013497
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«Guillaume le Maréchal ou le meilleur chevalier du monde» is the biography of the medieval English knight William Marshal written by Georges Duby.
Georges Duby reconstructs the life of William Marshal, an English knight who rose from humble origins to become one of the most powerful figures in England. Through his career, he depicts the medieval world, wars, the court and the values of chivalry, and shows how social ascent was possible in the feudal system.
Work published in 1984 by Fayard and belonging to the collection 'Les Inconnus de l'Histoire'. Text in French.
For readers of medieval history and biographies who want to explore feudal society and the chivalric ideal through a real person.
Georges Duby was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s to his death. In 2019, his work was published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
