The last knight : the twilight of the Middle Ages and the birth of the modern era

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The last knight : the twilight of the Middle Ages and the birth of the modern era

Norman F. Cantor ; picture editor, Judy Cantor

Free Press, c2004.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-250) and index

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A portrait of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and celebrated knight, is set in a context of the late-fourteenth-century pre-Renaissance era and identifies him as Europe's richest man, a patron of Chaucer, a last leader of the Plantagenet family, and a founder of the Lancastrian Dynasty. 50,000 firs

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