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Publisher: EdinburghPublication date: 1847Subjects: ChivalryNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The Art of Virtue: A Collector's Edition
Knights, ladies, gallantry:these words call forth noble and righteous behaviour in the beautiful world of the high Mediaeval ages.THE BOOK OF THE ORDRE OF CHYVALRY OR KNYGHTHODE is an all-time classic, the foremost handbook on the knight's code written by a bold knight of great deeds.This Catalan knight, Ramon Llull, here paints a mystical picture of the knight's virtuous pursuit as high spirituality.

Readers may know William Caxton's famous edition of MORTE D'ARTHUR as the seed-book of English literature's rise.Here, then is another.Caxton has liberally added his own knightly meditations thereto in Arthur's spirit.

This special edition is a work you will long treasure -- if you can find it.Its prose is poetic and printed exactly as Caxton himself set it down.It will teach you the long-lost beauty of English.It will teach you the heroic beauty of Life.

For students of Middle and early Modern English, this book is an easy read and a must have.Any man who enjoys Sir Thomas Malory's MORTE D'ARTHUR and Geoffrey Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES, should keep this beside him on his night table.

This edition is written in the original and beautiful late Middle English, such as you may have read in high school.Enjoy its music and its virtue.

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Las dos obras del siglo XIII que configuran el presente volumen, La Orden de Caballeria, anonima, y el Libro de la Orden de Caballeria, de Ramon Llull (1235-1316), se cuentan entre las primeras que trataron el hecho caballeresco europeo. La primera es un breve poema en octosilabos que narra la supuesta ordenacion caballeresca que el cruzado Hugo de Tabaria estuvo a punto de conceder al celebre sultan Saladino; la segunda es un autentico tratado sobre el significado y los origenes de la condicion de caballero. Aunque ambas se hallen insertas en el contexto trifuncional medieval (sacerdotes, combatientes y trabajadores), que configuro la sociedad de aquel tiempo, y esten sujetas al cristianismo que lo definio, el simbolismo de los tres colores (blanco, rojo y negro) que domina la ceremonia de investidura caballeresca narrada en La Orden de Caballeria nos remite a un simbolismo precristiano, de supuesto cuno indoeuropeo, que ya no aparece en el posterior Libro de la Orden de Caballeria. ... Read more