The Book of the Deeds of the Good Knight Jacques de Lalaing holds rich seams of information, offering invaluable insights into the behaviour and thinking of the nobility in the late Middle Ages.
This work offers a lot for historians to read when it comes to jousting and tournaments, as well as medieval warfare, revealing the stories of knights from the late Middle Ages.
Nigel Bryant, an Arthurian scholar, is well known for publishing over a dozen translations of works from medieval French for wider audiences.
Curiously, this same text was also recently translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant and Mario Damen, indicating a growing interest in chivalric biographies.
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