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,
“... or from the blades of swords’. A useful introduction to this world is provided by the reissue of Vinaver’s The Rise of Romance. A lot of information is packed into this short book, and in an age of semiological analysis Vinaver’s cool view of those who seek and find a continuously coherent system of symbolism in ... ”
