Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Book of the Knight of the Tower, Landry: Which He Made for the Instruction of His Daughters (by Way of Selection); Now Done Into English
S the Knight of the Tower has left us, himself, a prologue to his book, in which he sufficiently explains its general character, it is unnecessary that the reader should be troubled with a second; or, at any rate, a long one. So I have little more to say than to state, that, so far as the severity of our manners would permit, or as the work itself appeared to me to be worthy of reproduction, it is now reproduced. It will, I trust, supply a link which has been long wanting to the more judicious appreciation of middle-age literature and life. And this, as well, by showing us what language, conver sation, then was in the mouths of those who must have given the tone to society; as by affording us a glimpse into the interior of the household of a great feudal baron, a head of a family; an accomplished and a Christian gentle man. And though it may not appear to an age so self satisfied, so unreasoning, and so prejudiced as our own, to afford any adequate apology for the relative coarse ness of the effusions of the troubadours, contemporary chronicles and writings; it will, I fancy, be allowed, at least in some degree, to account for the same.
It will also be found to throw much curious light on the education, the superstitions, the learning, the manners of the feudal times; as also upon the reciprocal relation in which parent and child then stood with regard to one another; as well as each towards society in general their equals, superiors, and dependants.
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