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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,
“... pious foundation of Tintern Abbey. The most important of these firsts was a book, without which Thomas Asbridge would struggle to sustain his sprightly narrative: the History of William Marshal is the first life story known to have been written of a knight in medieval Europe, and the story of the manuscript is a little romance in itself which ... ”
