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Wednesday, July 18, 2018
The Good Duke, brought to you by the magazine Medieval Warfare
Medieval Warfare is a popular but substantial illustrated historical magazine published in Rotterdam every two months. Today the most recent issue landed in my mailbox. As usual, it is a beauty. Could I be prejudiced by the fact that issue VIII.3 contains an article by me, The Good Duke: A Personal Golden Age of Chivalry?
Could be!
The article, like much of my writing over the last few years, uses the reputation of Duke Louis of Bourbon, a cousin of the French kings during the first half of the Hundred Years War, to explore what chivalry meant at that time. I am especially interested in how the intense personal ties between princely warlords and their loyal followers made possible "chivalry."
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