Knight in Anarchy (Hardcover)

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The plot of Knight in Anarchy follows an English-born Norman knight, Humphrey Visdelou, in his violent and harrowing adventures in and out of battle. Shipway’s writing is superbly richly descriptive, his dialog masterful, and his knowledge of early 12th-century Norman England thorough, most particularly of course of Norman and medieval warfare but also of the ruling Normans’ feudal order and their practice of it, and of the Norman military and ruling caste’s society and social mores which had only been transposed to, and imposed on, Anglo-Saxon England a mere two generations before.