THE LAST KNIGHT: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era
Norman F. Cantor, . . Free Press, $25 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-2688-2
John of Gaunt (1340–1399) was one of the wealthiest men of late–14th-century Europe and an exemplar of the rough and refined values of his class. He fought in the Hundred Years War, was targeted in the 1381 Peasants' Rebellion and was a patron of Chaucer. By his first wife, he became Duke of Lancaster and founded the Lancastrian branch of the English royal family; by his second, he had a claim to the throne of Castile; and by his third, he founded another family line that married back into the royal Tudors. Cantor (
Reviewed on: 04/12/2004
Genre: Nonfiction
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