A RADICAL RE-INTERPRETATION OF THE CHIVALRIC BIOGRAPHY OF BOUCICAUT.
The _Livre des fais du bon messire Jehan le Maingre_ (1409) is one of
the most famous chivalric biographies of the Middle Ages. It presents
Jean II Le Meingre, known as Boucicaut (1366-1421), as an ideal knight
and role model, and has frequently been seen by modern scholars as a
last-ditch effort to defend traditional chivalric values that were
supposedly in decline. Here, however, Craig Taylor argues that the
biography is a much more complex and interesting text, fusing
traditional notions of chivalry with the most fashionable new ideas in
circulation at the French court at the start of the fifteenth century.
Rather than a nostalgic criticism of contemporary knighthood, it
should be seen as a showcase of the latest ideas on chivalry, written
to renew the enthusiasm of the great French princes for a man who was
in grave danger of falling out of favour: its purpose was to celebrate
and to defend a beleaguered Boucicaut against his critics at the royal
court, and to explain his actions as governor of Genoa, his failed
crusading enterprises in the Eastern Mediterranean and his
unsuccessful efforts to broker a solution to the PapalSchism.
CRAIG TAYLOR is a Reader in Medieval History at the University of
York; he was Director of its Centre for Medieval Studies from 2010 to
2011 and from 2014 to 2017.
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9781787445611
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2021
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York Medieval Press
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