The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman
de Girouard, Mark
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300027397
- ISBN 13
- 9780300027396
- Librería
-
Stanley, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Yale University Press, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Yale University Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Fine. First Edition in clean unchipped dust jacket. Book size is approx. 8" x 10". Clean green cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Lavishly illustrated in full color and black & white. 312 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Toward the end of the 18th Century, England was witness to a fascinating phenomenon: the revival of the mediaeval code of chivalry. Until well into the twentieth century, the metaphors of Camelot and the mediaeval knight's concept of honour, bravery, service and self-sacrifice took on new meaning and shaped the character of English society. Here Mark Girouard traces the impact of of the revival of chivalry in all its various aspects including politics, sport, literature, art, love and war..
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- Librería
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 028245
- Título
- The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman
- Autor
- Girouard, Mark
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0300027397
- ISBN 13
- 9780300027396
- Editorial
- Yale University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New Haven
- Fecha de publicación
- 1981
- Palabras clave
- AGE OF CHIVALRY, HISTORY, SOCIETY, CULTURE, ENGLAND, GREAT BRITAIN, FIRST EDITION, MARK GIROUARD
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Great Britain;
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