Memoirs of the Crusades (Classic Reprint)

INTRODUCTION Preliminaries Powerful and rich as English literature is, it has little to place in line against the superb array of French memoirs. Englishmen enough have done great things, or taken part in the doing of them, or seen them done; but only a scanty few-have been moved to write-even fewer to write with any approach to style-of what they had done and seen. Among the French it has been otherwise. The French statesman, or leader, his life’s greater battle being fought, has more often betaken himself to his pen, either-to use Guizot’s image- for the purpose of fighting the old fights once more, with that weapon, in the smaller arena of letters, or simply for pure indulgence in the pleasures of memory. Villehardouin, Joinville-I exclude Froissart, beautiful as his work is, because he was a chronicler pure and simple and not an actor in the world’s affairs-Commines, Sully, Retz, the ” Grande Mademoiselle,” Saint-Simon, Chateaubriand, Guizot,-here is a fine list of examples.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; page; Introduction->; Preliminaries ix; VlLLEHARDOUINx; jotnville XXVli; Existing Translations and general Observations xxxiv; Villehardouin’s Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade; and the Conquest of Constantinople i; Joinvtlle’s Chronicle of the Crusade of St Lewis 135; Index »»???* 329
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