2004, ISBN: 9780743226882

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New York.: Noonday Press., 1969. 8th printing.. Trade paperback. Good. Light spine creasing. Back cover price sticker residue. Light edge wear. Page border age-toning. Clean text pages..… Mehr…

New York.: Noonday Press., 1969. 8th printing.. Trade paperback. Good. Light spine creasing. Back cover price sticker residue. Light edge wear. Page border age-toning. Clean text pages.. Webb, Nancy (After a woodcut by Gauguin, Paul, cover design by).. 1 Trade paperback. Text in English, French. xiii, 148 p. 20 cm. Autobiography, 19th century French artist. In 1890, weary of struggling for income in Europe, artist and ex-stockbroker, Paul Gauguin, at age 43, made his first trip to Tahiti, later to make it his home, and to record its people in their "naked beauty". Without illustrations, Gauguin's work would stand as a prototype for the world of Western Civilization's artists to return to the primitive, to find a way out of a constraining society., Noonday Press., 1969, 2.5, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era (Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD-PUBLISHED BY FREE PRESS=COPYRIGHT 2004--260 PAGES) by Norman F. Cantor (Author) There may... Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era (Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD-PUBLISHED BY FREE PRESS=COPYRIGHT 2004--260 PAGES) by Norman F. Cantor (Author) There may be no more fascinating historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, yet gallantry, chivalry, and literary brilliance flourished in the courts of England and elsewhere. Chaucer wrote brilliant satire, lords and ladies invented courtly rituals of love and romance, yet the vast bulk of Europe's population struggled with plague, economic uncertainty, and violence. It was a world in transition, soon to be replaced by the Renaissance and the Age of Exploration--and John of Gaunt was its central figure. Norman F. Cantor, the best known and most popular historian of the Middle Ages, brings Gaunt to life brilliantly in his newest work, The Last Knight. John of Gaunt was the richest man in Europe, apart from its monarchs, and he epitomized and surpassed the ideals of the late Middle Ages. From chivalry--he was taught at a young age to fight on horseback like the knights of old--to courtly love--his three marriages included two romantic love-matches--he was an ideal leader. He created lavish courts, sponsoring Chaucer and proto-Protestant religious thinkers, and he survived the dramatic Peasants' Revolt, during which his sumptuous London residence was burned to the ground. As the head of the Lancastrian Branch of the Plantagenet family, he was the unknowing father of the War of the Roses, for his son Henry Bolingbroke usurped the crown from Gaunt's nephew, Richard II, after Gaunt had died. He passed away just as one great era gave way to the next: His grandson Henry the Navigator launched the Age of Exploration. Gaunt's adventures represent the culture and mores of the Middle Ages as few others' do, and his death is portrayed by Cantor as the end of that fascinating period., Simon & Schuster, 2004, 3<

2004, ISBN: 9780743226882

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era (Hardcover IN D… Mehr…

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era (Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD-PUBLISHED BY FREE PRESS=COPYRIGHT 2004--260 PAGES) by Norman F. Cantor (Author) There may... Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era (Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD-PUBLISHED BY FREE PRESS=COPYRIGHT 2004--260 PAGES) by Norman F. Cantor (Author) There may be no more fascinating historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, yet gallantry, chivalry, and literary brilliance flourished in the courts of England and elsewhere. Chaucer wrote brilliant satire, lords and ladies invented courtly rituals of love and romance, yet the vast bulk of Europe's population struggled with plague, economic uncertainty, and violence. It was a world in transition, soon to be replaced by the Renaissance and the Age of Exploration--and John of Gaunt was its central figure. Norman F. Cantor, the best known and most popular historian of the Middle Ages, brings Gaunt to life brilliantly in his newest work, The Last Knight. John of Gaunt was the richest man in Europe, apart from its monarchs, and he epitomized and surpassed the ideals of the late Middle Ages. From chivalry--he was taught at a young age to fight on horseback like the knights of old--to courtly love--his three marriages included two romantic love-matches--he was an ideal leader. He created lavish courts, sponsoring Chaucer and proto-Protestant religious thinkers, and he survived the dramatic Peasants' Revolt, during which his sumptuous London residence was burned to the ground. As the head of the Lancastrian Branch of the Plantagenet family, he was the unknowing father of the War of the Roses, for his son Henry Bolingbroke usurped the crown from Gaunt's nephew, Richard II, after Gaunt had died. He passed away just as one great era gave way to the next: His grandson Henry the Navigator launched the Age of Exploration. Gaunt's adventures represent the culture and mores of the Middle Ages as few others' do, and his death is portrayed by Cantor as the end of that fascinating period., Simon & Schuster, 2004, 3<

2004, ISBN: 9780743226882

Hardcover, All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include t… Mehr…

Hardcover, All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials., Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Free Press]<

2004, ISBN: 9780743226882

Free Press, 2004-05-25. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.9409 8.7402 5.7598., Free Press, 2004-05-25, 3

ISBN: 9780743226882

Hardback. Very Good., 3