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Article: Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand du Guesclin, 1357-1380.(Book review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2006
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Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand du Guesclin, 1357-1380, ed. Michael Jones (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004), liii + 415 PP. ISBN 1-84383-088-4. 75.00 [pounds sterling]. In many ways, this volume can be read as the companion piece to Richard Vernier's The Flower of Chivalry: Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War; issued by the same publishing house last year. Each author has clearly had the opportunity to consult the other's work in progress while preparing his own manuscript (the introduction to this volume refers to Vernier's work by what is presumably an earlier title) and the parallels--and contrasts--between the two volumes amply illustrate the range ...