Volume 32, Number 21 & 22 · January 16, 1986
The Knight of Knights
By Maurice Keen
William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry
by Georges Duby, translated by Richard Howard
Pantheon, 155 pp., $15.95
It is a remarkable coincidence that the two most distinguished medieval historians of their generation in France and England respectively, Professor Georges Duby and Sir Richard Southern, have a particular gift in common, although their interests are very different. Both have a striking capacity for seizing on a single career, a single text, or a single event, and using it as a vehicle to convey, vividly and in brief compass, perceptions founded in profound and powerful learning. Professor Duby's William Marshal is a small masterpiece in this genre.
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