The Legend of Roland: A Pageant of the Middle Ages - Hardcover

Owen, D. D. R

 
9780714815466: The Legend of Roland: A Pageant of the Middle Ages

Synopsis

140 illustrations, 24 in color. Who was Roland, Count of the Breton Marshes? Roland led the rearguard army of Charles, King of the Franks, which, while retreating after sacking Pamploma in Spain, was annihilated as it passed through the Roncevaux gorge. But by whom? King Marsile's infidels? Local Christian Basques?

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