A Virtuous Knight: Defending Marshal Boucicaut (Jean II Le Meingre, 1366-1421)

by Craig Taylor

A radical re-interpretation of the chivalric biography of Boucicaut.

The Livre des fais du bon messire Jehan le Maingre (1409) is one of the most famous chivalric biographies of the Middle Ages. It presents Jean II Le Meingre, known as Boucicaut (1366-1421), as an ideal knight and role model, and has frequently been seen by modern scholars as a last-ditch effort to defend traditional chivalric values that were supposedly in decline. Here, however,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903153913
• ISBN13: 9781903153918
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: York Medieval Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"