by Georges Duby · Alianza Editorial S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420695204
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«Guillermo el Mariscal» is the historical biography by Georges Duby published by Alianza Editorial in 1985, in paperback (175 pages, in Spanish).
The book reconstructs the career of William the Marshal, an Anglo-Norman knight born around 1145, from his beginnings in a modest lineage to his social rise in the service of the Plantagenets. Duby draws on a poem composed after his death to describe the world of tournaments, medieval warfare and the values of the nobility of the time, including his role as regent of England and his victory at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217.
Translation by Carmen López Alonso from the French original «Guillaume le Maréchal ou le meilleur chevalier du monde».
Recommended for readers interested in medieval history, biographies and the world of chivalry.
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.
