Jean Flori. L'idéologie du glaive: Préhistoire de la Chevalerie.
Richard W. Kaeuper
After a vigorous and productive intellectual life extending over more than quarter-century, Jean Flori's classic study of the thousand-year prehistory chivalry, now reprinted, calls for an anniversary celebration as much review. The book remains gold mine information based on close daunting mass evidence; it likewise presents clear elegant expression author's broad interpretations. In its early pages, Flori laments that no single author can hope to deal with all relevant sources, before going accomplish task if he were school scholars himself. Along successor, L'Essor de la chevalerie, XIe–XIIe siècles (1986), L'idéologie du glaive essential reading those interested in complex elusive ideology which left mark so many centuries European history, vexed issues religion violence general.
The American Historical Review