Medieval Fictions
Stuart Airlie, 21 February 1985
War in the Middle Ages
by Philippe Contamine, translated by Michael Jones.
Blackwell, 387 pp., £17.50, June 1984,0 631 13142 6 Show More
by Philippe Contamine, translated by Michael Jones.
Blackwell, 387 pp., £17.50, June 1984,
War and Government in the Middle Ages
edited by John Gillingham and J.C. Holt.
Boydell, 198 pp., £25, July 1984,0 85115 404 2 Show More
edited by John Gillingham and J.C. Holt.
Boydell, 198 pp., £25, July 1984,
Prussian Society and the German Order
by Michael Burleigh.
Cambridge, 217 pp., £22.50, May 1984,9780521261043 Show More
by Michael Burleigh.
Cambridge, 217 pp., £22.50, May 1984,
“... the law of conquest. In his stimulating work on Medieval literacy, From Memory to Written Record, Michael Clanchy has stressed the importance of this conflict in Medieval culture between the clerks’ notions of records and rights which were expressed in parchment (notions congenial to desk-bound historians) and the notions of warriors, men of the sword. In ... ”
