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The Book of Geoffroi de Charny
Ian Wilson
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
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 14th century French knight Geoffroi de Charny, has never been published, Nigel Bryant's brilliant new translation of this long-neglected poem, based on a hithertooverlooked 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. 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.
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Smyrna crusade, siege of Calais, battle of Mauron, Heraldry, battle of Poitiers, battle of Morlaix, Demandes, Charny Madrid manuscript (BNE manuscript. Madrid MS.9270), King Philip VI of France, Edouard de Beaujeu, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Hundred Years War, Edward, the Black Prince, Livre Charny, Humbert II Dauphin of Vienne, Chivalry, Cistercians, Lirey, Company of the Star, Livre de Chevalerie, Pilgrim badges, Tourneys, Jousting, Jean le Bel (chronicler), King Jean II of France, King Edward III, Calais, siege of, Rutebeuf, Froissart, Turin Shroud, Charny Oxford manuscript (Bodleian MS Holkham Misc.43)