| Edition |
[Book club edition]. |
| Description |
xxi, 720 pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
"I am the sire de Coucy": the dynasty -- Born to woe: the century -- Youth and chivalry -- War -- "This is the end of the world": the Black Death -- The battle of Poitiers -- Decapitated France: the bourgeois rising and the Jacquerie -- Hostage in England -- Enguerrand and Isabella -- Sons of iniquity -- The gilded shroud -- Double allegiance -- Coucy's war -- England's turmoil -- The emperor in Paris -- The papal schism -- Coucy's rise -- The worms of the earth against the lions -- The lure of Italy -- A second Norman conquest -- The fiction cracks -- The siege of Barbary -- In a dark wood -- Danse macabre -- Lost opportunity -- Nicopolis -- Hung be the heavens with black. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [631]-652. |
| Subject |
Coucy, Enguerrand de, 1340-1397.
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Nobility -- France -- Biography.
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France -- History -- 14th century.
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