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Paperback The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry: By Christine de Pizan Book

ISBN: 027101881X

ISBN13: 9780271018812

The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry: By Christine de Pizan

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It is unexpected in any era to find a woman writing a book on the art of warfare, but in the fifteenth century it was unbelievable. Not surprisingly, therefore, Christine de Pizan's The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry, written around 1410, has often been regarded with disdain. Many have assumed that Christine was simply copying or pilfering earlier military manuals. But, as Sumner Willard and Charity Cannon Willard show in this faithful English...

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