The last wandering knight. Senichev V.E.

The book is dedicated to the life of one of the brightest representatives of the European chivalry of the 15th century, a person who remembered contemporaries by following strict norms and rules, a beautiful tournament fighter and a brave military - Jacques de Lalen. In the century, when military affairs changed literally before his eyes, he became the embodiment of the hero of the knightly novel and glorified his homeland and its rulers - the dukes from the Valois clan, fulfilling numerous diplomatic missions, designed to strengthen the influence of the duchy among European countries and its claims on independence. De Lalen showed his whole life that the ideals of chivalry, sung in novels of the centuries before him, are still alive.

The biography of Jacques de Lalen is the first and, of course, the most voluminous document that captured the history of the Burgundy yard in all Its aspects: from the magnificence of its material culture and knightly institutions to an attempt to affirm their political identity in the European arena, becoming a full -fledged monarchy.