How to Be a Knight
Diarmaid MacCulloch: William Marshal, 21 May 2015
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones
by Thomas Asbridge.
Simon and Schuster, 444 pp., £20, January 2015,978 0 7432 6862 2 Show More
by Thomas Asbridge.
Simon and Schuster, 444 pp., £20, January 2015,
“... Marshal, first Earl of Pembroke, who rose from relative obscurity to become regent for the young Henry III and one of the most powerful men in Europe. Marshal’s craftsmen used fast-grown trees for the door’s outer face and a powerful lattice of slow-grown timber for the reinforcement inside: no expense spared, no older wood reused, nothing but the best ... ”