Download or read book The Days of Chivalry written by Quatrelles and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Days of Chivalry The Legend of Croquemitaine written by Ernest Louis Victor Jules L'Epine and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE story which I am about to relate happened (if it ever did happen) in the time of the famous Emperor Charlemagne. There is no necessity, in speaking of that remarkable epoch, to invent facts. The truth is so astounding that it will make you open your eyes quite wide enough. What marvellous doings of fairies, ogres, or demons, can compare with the deeds of Charlemagne? and what magic ring could be as potent as his sword? But before I proceed further it will be as well to sketch for you, in a few lines, the portrait of this hero. He was eight feet in height, according to the measurement of his own feet, which historians allege with fervour were of remarkable length. His eyes were large and piercing. When he was enraged you could almost have fancied they flashed fire. His face was broad and ruddy, his hair brown, and he wore a beard that was innocent of the barber's shears. Although he measured eight feet round the middle, his figure was wellproportioned. He devoured with ease at one repast a quarter of mutton, or a goose, or a ham, or a peacock. He was moderate in the matter of wine, which he used to take with water. His strength was so enormous that it was mere child's play to him to straighten with his naked hands three horse-shoes at a time. He could lift at arm's length, on the palm of his hand, a knight in full armour; and lie could cleave in twain, with one blow of his sword, a horseman in panoply of war—aye, and his horse into the bargain. This was mere sport to him, and often, with a charming complaisance which was peculiarly his own, he would take pleasure in thus giving those about him an ocular demonstration of his superhuman strength. His anger was as terrible as the thunder, for it was as ready to burst forth and to strike. He carves out a kingdom, with the compassion of a Titus, the sound judgment of a Solomon, the piety of a Joseph, the magnificence of a Sardanapalus, and the wisdom of an Æsop, he united two qualities more rare than all these put together? when he spoke he meant what he said, and when others spoke to him he took time for reflection, in order to make sure that he thoroughly understood their meaning. The dominion which his father bequeathed him did not suit the largeness of his views, so he carved out for himself a kingdom which was more in harmony with his gigantic instincts.
Download or read book The Days of Chivalry Or The Legend of Croquemitaine written by Quatrelles and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Days of Chivalry; Or, The Legend of Croquemitaine" by Quatrelles. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Days of Chivalry written by Ernest L'Epine and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First complete publication in over 90 years. Original quarto size of English edition, with full size illustrations -facsimile of the original English version. In addition to currently available oversized paper edition and the trade hardbound edition coming in July there will also be, in July, a limited edition of 100 numbered copies in gilt stamped hand bound premium bonded leather with cover stamping reproducing that of the 19th Century British edition from which the text is taken. You may pre-order now for July delivery. Christendom and the West meet the Saracens and allegorical "Fear" in this nineteenth century fanciful telling of the tales of Charlemagne and his twelve knights (including Roland) and of their 8th and 9th century adventures with the Saracens and the "Fortress of Fear," with some of, we believe, the best work of one of the greatest engravers of the 19th century, Gustave Dore. Ernest L'Epine's The Days of Chivalry, or The Legend of Croquemitaine appeared in France in 1863, the Ton Hood translation appeared in England in 1867. Enjoy!
Download or read book The Days of Chivalry written by and published by Castle Keep Press. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Days of Chivalry Or The Legend of Croquemitaine written by Quatrelles and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Days of Chivalry; Or, The Legend of Croquemitaine" by Quatrelles is divided into three sections. The first section is about Charlemagne's jousts at Fronsack. Section two is all in dream-quests and visions both Charlemagne's and Marsillus of Saragosa as well as Charlemagne's nephew Roland's adventures in Spain. The third section is pure fiction and is about Charlemagne's godchild, little heroine Mitaine, and her errand to find and destroy Fortress of Fear where the Lord of Fear with his children dwell. This book famously inspired The Lord of The Rings, thanks to the fantastical quality of the story and its impact on the world.
Download or read book The Days of ChivalryOr the Legend of Croquemitaine written by Ernest Louis Victor Jules l'Epine and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Days of ChivalryOr the Legend of Croquemitaine, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Download or read book L Pine s the Legend of Croquemitaine and the Chivalric Times of Charlemagne written by Ernest L'Pine and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, there was Charlemagne and his knights, chief of whom was Roland. L'Epine's story (with humor verging on satire) offers an often fantastical glimpse of the age of chivalry, full of love, honour, betrayal, and battles. The story is well-illustrated by the notable Gustave Dore.
Download or read book Chivalric Stories as Children s Literature written by Velma Bourgeois Richmond and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children. This book examines how late Victorians and Edwardians retold medieval narratives of chivalry--epics, romances, sagas, legends and ballads. Stories of Beowulf, Arthur, Gawain, St. George, Roland, Robin Hood and many more thrilled and instructed children, and encouraged adult reading. Lavish volumes and schoolbooks of the era featured illustrated texts, many by major artists. Children's books, an essential part of Edwardian publishing, were disseminated throughout the English-speaking world. Many are being reprinted today. This book examines related contexts of Medievalism expressed in painting, architecture, music and public celebrations, and the works of major authors, including Sir Walter Scott, Tennyson, Longfellow and William Morris. The book explores national identity expressed through literature, ideals of honor and valor in the years before World War I, and how childhood reading influenced 20th-century writers as diverse as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.
Download or read book The Legend of Croquemitaine and the Chivalric Times of Charlemagne written by L'. Epine and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legend of Croquemitaine and the Chivalric Times of Charlemagne written by Ernest L'Epine and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Iron Tempest written by Ron Miller and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the eighth century Europe of Charlemagne...and of myths, monsters and magic. The Iron Tempest is the story of one of Charlemagne's most formidable paladins, a fabulous woman knight who must face almost insurmountable odds in her quest for a love forbidden by her emperor, her family and her god. Odds that include such impediments as sorcerers and sorceresses, giants and hippogryphs, treachery and madness---all to say nothing of entire armies that have the misfortune of standing between Lady Bradamant and her heart's desire...even if she is not entirely sure what that desire really is. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
