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Black Prince and His Age

By Harvey, John H.

Black Prince and His Age

By Harvey, John H.

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The name of the Black Prince has always been one which has moved the hearts of Englishmen. He symbolizes the finest qualities of the Middle Ages: chivalry, desperate courage, true love, and a debonair liberality so admired in this own age as largesse; and, along with Marlborough, Wellington and Nelson, he was one of England's great military commanders. Just as the Prince himself was pre-eminent, so was the age associated with his name one of supreme achievement, above all in the arts. At this time there flourished, as contemporaries, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Yeveley, William Herland and Gilbert Prince. It was then that The Canterbury Tales were written, that the Wilton Diptych was painted, that masterpieces such as Westminster Hall roof, the Ely octagon, York Chapter house and Wykeham's colleges at Oxford and Winchester were constructed. This was in John Harvey's view the supreme epoch not only of the English Middle Ages, but, arguably, of the whole of English history.
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Number of Pages:
228
Release Date:
1976-06-17
Publication Date:
1976-06-17
Publisher:
HarperCollins Distribution Services
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0713431482
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