{"product_id":"the-book-of-geoffroi-de-charny-9781783275854","title":"The Book of Geoffroi de Charny","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eLivre Charny (Charny's Book)\u003c\/i\u003e, by the 14th century French knight Geoffroi de Charny, translated here by Nigel Bryant with an introduction by Ian Wilson.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poem known as the \u003ci\u003eLivre Charny (Charny's Book)\u003c\/i\u003e, by the fourteenth-century French knight Geoffroi de Charny, has never been published,  Nigel Bryant's brilliant new translation of this long-neglected poem, based on a hitherto overlooked original Charny manuscript housed in Oxford, vividly conveys Charny's self-deprecating and extraordinarily down-to-earth attitudes towards the knightly career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Charny is surprisingly blunt in his descriptions of the mishaps and mortal dangers to be expected, from losing in a tournament, to homesickness on crusade, to being concussed whilst attempting to scale an enemy tower. Nothing else quite like it is to be found in medieval literature. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ian Wilson's introduction provides a markedly revised understanding of Charny's career as tournament performer, serving soldier, crusader, councillor, and finally royal standard-bearer: he was killed at Poitiers in 1356. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bryant and Wilson also argue that \u003ci\u003eCharny's Book\u003c\/i\u003e is so different in style from the \u003ci\u003eBook of Chivalry\u003c\/i\u003e, also attributed to him, that the latter is unlikely to be by the same author. Using the evidence of a hitherto unnoticed manuscript in Madrid, they show that the latter is likely to be a work of the 1380s composed by Charny's son of the same name, possibly as a kind of memorial to his heroic father.","brand":"Ian Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280807309563,"sku":"9781783275854","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781783275854.jpg?v=1772486611","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-book-of-geoffroi-de-charny-9781783275854","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}