The Last Knight

The Last Knight

"The Last Knight" is a nonfiction book written by the medievalist Norman Cantor concerning the "twilight of the middle ages and the birth of the modern era". The book uses the example of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster as a standard from which he describes Anglo-Saxon culture of the time (1340-1399).

"The Last Knight" deals with many aspects of the Late Middle Ages. Cantor writes about the great wealthy families of the time, including Gaunt's own House Of Plantagenet. From the Hundred Years War to Edward, the Black Prince, "The Last Knight" conveys the ideas, people and situations John of Gaunt would have been faced with.


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