Knights: Brutal Middle Ages

by Lisa Moore

When it comes to medieval knights in General, immediately before our mind's eye is the same, in fact, the image of the valiant and noble warriors in bright, shining armor. However, this beautiful image to look as it begins to spread out, to break up, losing its original uniqueness.The author of this book deliberately crushes classic image of chivalry, several key problems and trying to solve them, considering the time. And surprisingly, in search of answers to critical questions on the history of chivalry: the origin, the change of battle tactics, about tournaments, about ideology and the impact on her education of the Church and the aristocracy, vassalage and land holding, about the Crusades and chivalric literature — we together with the author again returns to the original image, suddenly given flesh and blood, enriched in our eyes, many details of his everyday life.

1124 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 16, 2017

About the author

Lisa Moore has written two collections of stories, Degrees of Nakedness and Open, as well as a novel, Alligator.

Open and Alligator were both nominated for the Giller Prize. Alligator won the Commonwealth Prize for the Canadian Caribbean Region and the ReLit Award, and Open won the Canadian Authors' Association Jubilee Prize for Short Fiction.

Lisa has also written for television, radio, magazines (EnRoute, The Walrus and Chatelaine) and newspapers (The Globe and Mail and The National Post).

Lisa has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She also studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she became a member of The Burning Rock Collective, a group of St. John's writers.