- Scandals, Wager of battle, History, Dueling
In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a huge crowd gathers at a Paris monastery to watch the two men fight a duel to the death meant to "prove" which man's cause is right in God's sight.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Eric Jager
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Broadway, Century, Broadway Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780712661904
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“In the fourteenth century it took several months for knights and pilgrims to travel from Paris or Rome to the Holy Land, and a year or more for friars and traders to journey across Europe and all the way to China along the Silk Road.”
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