Maurice Keen

Maurice Keen is an emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He has written a number of books on medieval subjects, including Chivalry and Origins of the English Gentleman.

In the LRB Archive:

• Blood on the Block: Henry IV · 5 June 2008

  • The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England’s Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer

• Hoo sto ho sto mon amy: Knightly Pursuits · 15 December 2005

  • A Knight’s Own Book of Chivalry by Geoffroi de Charny, translated by Elspeth Kennedy
  • The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting by Edward, Duke of York

• Freebooter: The diabolical Sir John Hawkwood · 5 May 2005

  • Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman by Frances Stonor Saunders

• Why did Lady Mary care about William Cragh?: a medieval miracle · 5 August 2004

  • The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory and Colonialism in the Middle Ages by Robert Bartlett

• The Gold Mines of Kremnica: From Venice to Visa · 20 February 2003

  • Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe by Peter Spufford

• The Men from God Knows Where: The Hundred Years War · 27 April 2000

  • The Hundred Years War, Vol. II: Trial by Fire by Jonathan Sumption

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