SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - "A taut page-turner with all the hallmarks of a good historical thriller."-- Orlando Sentinel The gripping True Story of the "Duel to end all duels" in medieval France as a resolute knight defends his wife\'s honor against the squire she accuses of a heinous crime.
He lives in Los Angeles..
An award-winning professor of English at UCLA, he is the author of two previous books, including The Book of the Heart (a study of heart imagery in medieval literature) and numerous articles for acclaimed academic journals. from the University of Michigan and has also taught at Columbia University.
About author(s): ERIC Jager holds a Ph.
D.
The Last Duel is at once a moving human drama, a captivating True Crime story, and an engrossing work of historical intrigue with themes that echo powerfully centuries later.
Based on extensive research in Normandy and Paris, The Last Duel brings to life a colorful, turbulent age and three unforgettable characters caught in a fatal triangle of crime, scandal, and revenge.
What follows is a fierce duel, the final one sanctioned by governing powers, before a massive crowd that includes the teenage King Charles VI, during which both combatants are wounded--but only one fatally.
While enemy troops pillage the land, and rebellion and plague threaten the lives of all, Carrouges and Le Gris meet in full armor on a walled field in Paris.
For if her husband loses the duel, she will be put to death as a false accuser.
A deadlocked court decrees a "Trial by combat" between the two men that also leaves Marguerite\'s fate in the balance.
His wife, Marguerite, has accused squire Jacques Le Gris of rape.
In the midst of the devastating Hundred Years\' War between France and England, Jean de Carrouges, a Norman knight fresh from Combat in Scotland, returns home to yet another deadly threat.
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - "A taut page-turner with all the hallmarks of a good historical thriller."-- Orlando Sentinel The gripping True Story of the "Duel to end all duels" in medieval France as a resolute knight defends his wife\'s honor against the squire she accuses of a heinous crime
