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The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones

byThomas Asbridge

Thomas Asbridge uses The Greatest Knight to investigate the Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones through a carefully framed biographical portrait. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention.

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Publication date

2015

Format

Print edition

Pages

464

ISBN

9780062262066