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The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry
This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1868 edition by N. Tr_bner & Co., London.
249 pages, Paperback
Published November 30, 2005
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November 26, 2025
Terrible lecture. La misogynie des temps médiévaux m’est habituellement très drôle et amusante. Sauf ici, rendu au 5373829182 chapitres, ça finit par être plate. Sois créatif dans ta façon de dire que les femmes ne devraient pas se maquiller sous peine de mourir en enfer.
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Une étoile parce que ça prouve tous les points de ma thèse pour mon travail final.
Ce livre, la source première du Lucide Podcast? Des questions à explorer…
Une étoile parce que ça prouve tous les points de ma thèse pour mon travail final.
May 12, 2018
I found this work by Geoffrey de la Tour-Landry (Compiled for his daughters' instruction) of immense interest, an exciting window into the past's long-missed days.
Read for personal research, I found this book's contents helpful and inspiring - number rating relates to the book's contribution to my needs.
Overall, this work is also a good resource for the researcher and enthusiast.
-- From THE GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAGE:
The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry was written in 1371-72, in French, by Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry, a gentleman who lived between Chollet and Vezins in the province of Anjou. Geoffroy was a knight banneret, of about the same social rank as Chaucer's Knight.
Geoffroy wrote this work, he says, as a book of instruction for his three daughters and as a companion volume to the book he had written for his two sons.
The book that he wrote for his sons has been lost, but that written for his daughters was widely read. It survives in at least six French manuscripts and two early prints. and in the fifteenth century it was translated into several different languages, including English, into which it was translated at least twice.
The Book of the Knight is valuable as a reflection of the moral values of a fourteenth-century country gentleman and as an embodiment of the literary tastes of an educated but by no means learned layman of the time. The Knight is one of a number lay authors who appear in the fourteenth century -- men for whom writing was an avocation and yet who undertook significant literary endeavors. The "Goodman of Paris," Henry Skinner of London (who wrote long Arthurian works), Duke Henry of Lancaster (John of Gaunt's father-in-law), Chaucer's friend Sir John Clanvowe, and Chaucer himself are representatives of this phenomenon.
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Read for personal research, I found this book's contents helpful and inspiring - number rating relates to the book's contribution to my needs.
Overall, this work is also a good resource for the researcher and enthusiast.
-- From THE GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAGE:
The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry was written in 1371-72, in French, by Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry, a gentleman who lived between Chollet and Vezins in the province of Anjou. Geoffroy was a knight banneret, of about the same social rank as Chaucer's Knight.
Geoffroy wrote this work, he says, as a book of instruction for his three daughters and as a companion volume to the book he had written for his two sons.
The book that he wrote for his sons has been lost, but that written for his daughters was widely read. It survives in at least six French manuscripts and two early prints. and in the fifteenth century it was translated into several different languages, including English, into which it was translated at least twice.
The Book of the Knight is valuable as a reflection of the moral values of a fourteenth-century country gentleman and as an embodiment of the literary tastes of an educated but by no means learned layman of the time. The Knight is one of a number lay authors who appear in the fourteenth century -- men for whom writing was an avocation and yet who undertook significant literary endeavors. The "Goodman of Paris," Henry Skinner of London (who wrote long Arthurian works), Duke Henry of Lancaster (John of Gaunt's father-in-law), Chaucer's friend Sir John Clanvowe, and Chaucer himself are representatives of this phenomenon.
TEXT Version: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text...
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November 23, 2015(from Wikipedia) There are multiple candidates for first novel in English partly because of ignorance of earlier works, but largely because the term novel can be defined so as to exclude earlier candidates:
Some critics require a novel to be wholly original and so exclude retellings like Le Morte d'Arthur.
Most critics distinguish between an anthology of stories with different protagonists, even if joined by common themes and milieus, and the novel (which forms a connected narrative), and so also exclude Le Morte d'Arthur.
Some critics distinguish between the romance (which has fantastic elements) and the novel (which is wholly realistic) and so yet again exclude Le Morte d'Arthur.
Some critics distinguish between the allegory (in which characters and events have political, religious or other meanings) and the novel (in which characters and events stand only for themselves) and so exclude The Pilgrim's Progress and A Tale of a Tub.
Some critics require a novel to have a certain length, and so exclude Oroonoko, defining it instead as a novella.
Some critics distinguish between the picaresque (which has a loosely connected sequence of episodes) and the novel (which has unity of structure) and so exclude The Unfortunate Traveller.
Due to the influence of Ian Watt's seminal study in literary sociology, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (1957), Watt's candidate, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), gained wide acceptance.
Some critics require a novel to be wholly original and so exclude retellings like Le Morte d'Arthur.
Most critics distinguish between an anthology of stories with different protagonists, even if joined by common themes and milieus, and the novel (which forms a connected narrative), and so also exclude Le Morte d'Arthur.
Some critics distinguish between the romance (which has fantastic elements) and the novel (which is wholly realistic) and so yet again exclude Le Morte d'Arthur.
Some critics distinguish between the allegory (in which characters and events have political, religious or other meanings) and the novel (in which characters and events stand only for themselves) and so exclude The Pilgrim's Progress and A Tale of a Tub.
Some critics require a novel to have a certain length, and so exclude Oroonoko, defining it instead as a novella.
Some critics distinguish between the picaresque (which has a loosely connected sequence of episodes) and the novel (which has unity of structure) and so exclude The Unfortunate Traveller.
Due to the influence of Ian Watt's seminal study in literary sociology, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (1957), Watt's candidate, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), gained wide acceptance.
January 30, 2023
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