by Georges Duby · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420602592
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«Guillermo el Mariscal» is the historical biography written by Georges Duby and published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Born of modest lineage in the twelfth century, William the Marshal rises in the Anglo-Norman aristocracy as a tournament champion and loyal servant of the Plantagenets. Duby reconstructs, from the poem commissioned by his eldest son, the world of chivalry, medieval warfare, and the values of loyalty and heroism, up to his victory at Lincoln.
Translation by Carmen López Alonso of the French original «Guillaume le Maréchal ou le meilleur chevalier du monde». Belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo collection (no. 1259, Humanities section).
A work for readers of medieval history and biographies, interested in chivalry, feudal society, and the Angevin period.
Georges Duby was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s to his death. In 2019, his work was published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
