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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Jager, Eric, 1957-     Subjects     Dueling -- France -- History -- 14th century.     Wager of battle -- France -- History -- 14th century.     Rape -- France -- History -- 14th century.     Crime -- France -- History -- 14th century.     Scandals -- France -- History -- 14th century.     France -- History -- 14th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jager, Eric, 1957-       by title:      The last duel : a tr...       by call number:      394.8 J24L     Search the Web     Jager, Eric, 1957-     Dueling -- France -- History -- 14th century.     Wager of battle -- France -- History -- 14th century.     Rape -- France -- History -- 14th century.     Crime -- France -- History -- 14th century.     Scandals -- France -- History -- 14th century.     France -- History -- 14th century.       MARC Display

The last duel : a true story of crime, scandal, and trial by combat in medieval France / Eric Jager by Jager, Eric, 1957- Broadway Books, 2005, c2004. Call #: 394.8 J24L Subjects Dueling -- France -- History -- 14th century.   Wager of battle -- France -- History -- 14th century.   Rape -- France -- History -- 14th century.   Crime -- France -- History -- 14th century.   Scandals -- France -- History -- 14th century.   France -- History -- 14th century. ISBN:  9780593240885 9780767914178 (pbk.) Edition:  First trade paperback edition Description:  242 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm. Notes:  Originally published in hardcover in 2004. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index. Summary:  In the late fourteenth century, Jean de Carrouges, a Norman knight, returns from combat in Scotland and accuses his old friend, Jacques LeGris, of having brutally raped his wife. The knight takes his cause before the teenage King Charles VI. The deadlocked court decrees a "trial by combat" that leaves the wife's fate, too, in the balance. For if her husband loses the duel, she will be put to death as a false accuser. Carrouges and LeGris, in full armor, eventually meet on a walled field in Paris before a massive crowd that includes the king and many nobles of the realm. A fierce fight on horseback and then on foot ensues during which both combatants suffer wounds - but only one fatal. The violent and tragic episode was notorious in its own time because of the nature of the alleged crime, the legal impasse it provoked, and the resulting trial by combat, an ancient but increasingly suspect institution that was thereafter abolished. The dramatic true story of the knight, the squire, and the lady, a fatal triangle of crime, scandal and revenge, unfolds in 1386, during the devastating Hundred Years War between France and England, as enemy troops pillage the land, madness haunts the French court, the Great Schism splits the Church, Muslim armies threaten Christendom, and rebellion, treachery, and plague turn the lives of all into toys of Fortune. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 394.8 J24L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 394.8 J24L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 394.8 J24L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 394.8 J24L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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