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The Troubadour's Song: The Capture and Ransom of Richard the Lionheart Hardcover – September 15, 2005

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Walker Books (December 31, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0802714595
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802714596
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.4 x 9.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,105,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
A light read
By Caslon on October 18, 2005
Format: Hardcover
I give this book 4 stars because it is an enjoyable, easy read. But it doesn't get very deep into anything. I am not sure why "the troubadour's song" got prime billing on the title. It isn't much of the book. There isn't much historical evidence concerning Blondel and anything he might have done concerning locating King Richard or his release. The author's discussion is interesting but only a very small part of the book. The author pulled together the whole story of Richard, his capture, the other major participants in the story, England's raising of the ransom, and even, the economic effect on England. All well told. But nothing particularly astounding or revealing. However, the author writes very well. The story moves along nicely and you have a pleasant time reading it. If you are only vaguely familiar with King Richard's capture and ransom and that sort of story would be interesting to you, this is a good book to relax with and enjoy. A final aspect of this book I really enjoyed was at the end when he tells you what happened to all the major participants after Richard is released.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Subtitle is the key to the book
By lordhoot on May 7, 2006
Format: Hardcover
This book by David Boyle proves to be a superb work of history regarding the capture and ransom of King Richard I of England. Its a well written, easy to read and superbly research book that dealt with the details around Richard's captured, methods of his ransom and his dealing with his captors. Although it read like Richard's biography, the book gives a good detail study of this incident. It was interesting to know that inorder to ensure his final release, Richard pledged England to his captor, Henry VI of Holy Roman Empire. It was probably a pledge that he never meant to keep but for a brief moment of legel history, England was a province of Germany. Background material on Richard, especially his conducts during the Crusades and his dealing with various lords and rulers during the Third Crusade proves to be well presented and accurately gives the cause and effects behind his imprisonment.

The author also take pains to informed the readers of the type of the world, Richard lived in, the influence of music and men who write them like the troubadours. While the author get into the stories of these troubadours, especially one Blondal who were rumoured to found Richard's prison by singing under his castle cell, the author make it pretty clear to the reader where facts end and where the legend begin.

The book come highly recommended to anyone who happen to be interested in mediveal English history, especially in the personality of King Richard the Lion-Heart. A detail look at his captivity proves to be highly informative and interesting.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Rich in detail and a true pleasure to read
By Whitt Patrick Pond TOP 1000 REVIEWER on March 23, 2006
Format: Hardcover
This book is one of those that is all too rarely found - the history is well-researched and very detailed and yet the style is smooth and engaging, making it both informative and a pleasure to read at the same time. The keenness of Boyle's interest in both the period - the late 12th century with its crusades, chivalry, courtly love and troubadours - and in the core event itself - the capture and ransom of Richard the Lionheart - comes through in the way in which he brings it all to life, immersing the reader to the extent that we feel we are there as witnesses.

One thing I felt Boyle did particularly well was pointing out where he was relating known historical fact and where he was filling in gaps with informed speculation, showing the various possibilities and why he felt a particular one might be the most likely. For example, very little is actually known about Blondel, the legendary troubadour of the title, but Boyle shows what is known and also what can be deduced or speculated based on it. He also does the same for Robin Hood, another legendary figure tied to the story of Richard's absence and return to England.

Another thing Boyle does well is giving the reader a sense of the personalities of the dominant figures of the period and its events, and showing how much the strengths and weakness of their personalities affected how things turned out. Richard's charisma, persuasiveness and calm in the face of adversity come out vividly in the parts where he is a prisoner of Henry VI, the Holy Roman Emperor, and put on trial for alleged crimes connected to his conduct of the crusade.Read more ›
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A great book on Richard
By Boyd Hone on August 31, 2012
Format: Hardcover
Women historians write wonderful books, take Caroline Alexander's BOUNTY, Ruth Scurr's ROBESPIERRE, Tuchman's A DISTANT MIRROR. But it's men who have the testosterone, and a ballsy story, especially one concerning a woman, in this case Douglas Boyd's ELEANOR D'AQUITAINE, is right up a male historian's alley. Already a teenage multi-millionairess thanks to her inheritance of Aquitaine, Eleanor could have retired in luxury and lovers, but it was power she craved. After becoming Queen of France, her husband, King Louis VII, had the marriage annulled because she hadn't produce a male heir. She married Henry II of England and gave him 5 sons, the greatest of whom--perhaps the greatest warrior-king ever--was Richard the Lionheart. As a boy's and a man's sexuality is character determining, it is interesting to know if Richard was or wasn't homosexual. McLynn (RICHARD AND JOHN) says he definitely wasn't. Reston (WARRIORS OF GOD) says he was, even having him, in one scene, riding into the sunset with the French king Philippe Augustus. Boyle (BLONDEL'S SONG) leans in that direction. Gillingham (RICHARD THE LIONHEART) says we can't know, but he probably wasn't. And Boyle? Not a word. (For some writers Richard is the cat's miaow; others, like Boyd, can't stand him.) Henry II eventually had Eleanor imprisoned after she and his sons rebelled against his authority, and at his death she returned to London and at the age of 67 reminded one and all that she was still Queen of England, a role she held, as dowager, alongside the son she adored, Richard I, the boy, become man, who worshipped the ground she walked on. Douglas Boyd went so far as to learn Occitan, now nearly extinct, the language Eleanor spoke, in order to write this book about one of the most remarkable women in world history.Read more ›
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