The Golden Spurs: How the Weavers of Flanders Broke the Flower of French Chivalry - Couverture souple

Darcy, Theobald

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798237710625

Editeur : Goldenback, 2026

Synopsis

On the morning of 11 July 1302, the weavers and fullers of Flanders did something no one believed possible: they destroyed the finest cavalry army in Europe.

The Battle of the Golden Spurs is one of the most consequential and least understood engagements of the medieval world. When the guild militias of Bruges, Ghent, and Ypres faced the flower of French chivalry on a flat plain outside Kortrijk, the outcome was supposed to be swift and brutal. Instead, it became one of history's great military upsets - and the beginning of a transformation in how European wars were fought.

The Golden Spurs is the definitive narrative account of how it happened and what it meant. Drawing on the full range of medieval chronicle sources and the best of modern scholarship, Theobald Darcy reconstructs the wool trade that made Flanders ungovernable, the French occupation that made revolution inevitable, the guild organization that made the militia possible, and the specific tactics that made the morning of 11 July 1302 decisive. He then traces the battle's extraordinary afterlife: the punitive peace, the peasant revolts, the spurs removed from the church in 1382, and the romantic mythology that a nineteenth-century novelist transformed into the founding story of a modern people.

History this rich deserves to be told whole.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Theobald Darcy grew up in County Kilkenny, where an early obsession with the military and social history of medieval Europe was encouraged by a grandfather who kept more history books than novels. He read widely in the medieval chronicles of the Low Countries and France before turning his attention to the specific world of the Flemish guild communes, whose extraordinary commercial sophistication and capacity for collective political action struck him as one of the great underexplored stories of the medieval West. He has particular interests in the intersection of economic history, urban organization, and military innovation in the period from 1200 to 1400. The Golden Spurs is his most ambitious work, seven years in the research and writing. He lives in Dublin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Goldenback
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798237710625
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 438
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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