Sir Nigel: Boyhood of the Commander of the White Company Tapa blanda - 2003

From the book:Dame History is so austere a lady that if one, has been so ill-advised as to take a liberty with her, one should hasten to make amends by repentance and confession. Events have been transposed to the extent of some few months in this narrative in order to preserve the continuity and evenness of the story. I hope so small a divergence may seem a venial error after so many centuries. For the rest, it is as accurate as a good deal of research and hard work could make it. The matter of diction is always a question of taste and discretion in a historical reproduction. In the year 1350 the upper classes still spoke Norman-French, though they were just beginning to condescend to English. The lower classes spoke the English of the original Piers Plowman text, which would be considerably more obscure than their superiors' French if the two were now reproduced or imitated. The most which the chronicles can do is to catch the cadence and style of their talk, and to infuse here and there such a dash of the archaic as may indicate their fashion of speech.

Detalles

• Título Sir Nigel: Boyhood of the Commander of the White Company
• Autor Arthur Conan Doyle
• Encuadernación Tapa blanda
• Páginas 356
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Fredonia Books (NL)
• Fecha de publicación 2003-04-28
• ISBN 9781410102454 / 1410102459
• Peso 0.93 libras (0.42 kg)
• Dimensiones 8.04 x 5.06 x 0.88 pulgadas (20.42 x 12.85 x 2.24 cm)
• Temas
  • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
  • Cultural Region: British
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC