Chivalry: The Everyday Life of the Medieval Knight - Paperback

by Leon Gautier (Author)

Author Biography

Léon Gautier was a French literary historian who was born at Le Havre, France in 1832. He was educated at the École des Chartes, and became successively head of the archives of the département of Haute-Marne and archivist at the Imperial Archives at Paris. In 1871 he became professor of palaeography at the École des Chartes. He was elected member of the Academy of Inscriptions in 1887, and became chief of the historical section of the National Archives in 1893. Gautier rendered great services to the study of early French literature with numerous works on medieval subjects.