William Marshall Condition:Very Good On Nick’s arm

On Nick’s arm

and Zen Hae for the anthology

acts of base cowardice and real bravery

It is no longer what you do that matters most and sets you apart from others

William Marshall Condition:Very Good On Nick’s armWilliam 'the Marshal' (c. 1145 1219), knight, tournament champion, royal household official, warrior, Earl of Pembroke, regent of England, was in his day a paragon of chivalry. In the 1220s William's son commissioned a Histoire of that life & career. This text, discovered & published in the late 1800s by Paul Meyer, was the basis of Sidney Painter's 1933 biography. Now renowned French medievalist Duby explores it not for events, but for its witness to