Medieval Mercenaries: The Business of War.
- Author / Editor
- Urban, William.
Medieval Mercenaries: The Business of War.
- Published
- London: Greenhill; St. Paul, Minn.: MBI Publishing, 2006.
- Physical Description
- 304 pp.; color and b&w illus.
- Description
- Surveys relations among mercenary practice, war, and the monetization of war-making in Western Europe. Includes comments on the "traditional" idealized view of the Knight and his Tale, attributing these views to John Aubrey in the seventeenth century, and describes Terry Jones's challenge to this view. Also includes comments on the Squire and his Tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Squire and His Tale