- Paperback: 402 pages
- Publisher: Coronet; New Ed edition (6 Jan 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340520280
- ISBN-13: 978-0340520284
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 11.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 805,061 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Set in Scotland, this is a historical novel by the author of "Black Douglas", "The Bruce Trilogy", "Lord of Isles", "The Captive Crown", "The Courtesan", "Pastmasters", "A Folly of Princes", "Rough Wooing", "Margaret the Queen" and "Lords of Misrule".
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This Nigel Tranter novel takes up Scotland's story after the death of Robert The Bruce when his five year old son sits on the throne. It deals with the attempts of the Scottish nobles to keep their King in power despite the constant attacks from the English and some treacherous Scotsmen. The two main characters, the Flowers of Chivalry, are in the thick of the action and the book tells their story, their friendship, their eventual falling out and the nasty conclusion. As usual, Nigel Tranter effortlessly combines rich historical fact with an engaging narrative that allows the reader to become caught up in the times. Not as historical as many other of Tranter's novels, the Flowers of Chivalry is all the better for it if you are looking for a good read about Scotland's past. Also worth reading: The Bruce Trilogy; The Wallace.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
FLOWERS OF CHIVALRY Nigel Tranter 1988
The late and greatly missed Nigel Tranter (b.1909-d.2000) was not only one of Scotland's leading historians, but was also the premier writer of Scottish historical biographical fiction. If you were to organise his books chronologically they would form an almost complete biographic history of Scotland from the earliest times to the Highland Clearances. I started to collect his books as they were published in early 1970s and acquired each new title until the last in 2007.
With the recent and imminent publication of a number of new historical novels about the Anglo-Scottish Wars I decided to revisit Tranter's works about Wallace and Robert the Bruce before reading the newer writings.
Flowers of Chivalry continues the story of Scotland immediately after death of Robert the Bruce and the succession of the child king David II. The novel follows on from Tranter's Bruce Trilogy, (Steps to the Empty Throne, Price of the King's Peace and Path of the Hero King), and is the story of Sir William Douglas, the Knight of Liddesdale, known as the Flower of Chivalry and Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalwolsey. These two valiant knights did more than any others to hold together the free kingdom that Robert the Bruce had won and secure his son on the throne.
Whilst a stand alone novel the reader will benefit from having read the Bruce Trilogy to really appreciate the historical background and likewise Flowers of Chivalry completes the story of the Bruce dynasty.
Tranter's vivid prose as always flows seamlessly through the story and brings to life the characters and historical settings. As a celebrated historian, Tranter's books were always meticulously researched, accurate and full of historical detail and minutiae giving his stories a feeling of truth and reality that very few authors of fiction ever achieve.
Thank you Mr.Tranter for your contribution to literature, your prolific output which would keep any reader content for years, and your determination to bring readable Scottish history to the people.
You are sorely missed.
The late and greatly missed Nigel Tranter (b.1909-d.2000) was not only one of Scotland's leading historians, but was also the premier writer of Scottish historical biographical fiction. If you were to organise his books chronologically they would form an almost complete biographic history of Scotland from the earliest times to the Highland Clearances. I started to collect his books as they were published in early 1970s and acquired each new title until the last in 2007.
With the recent and imminent publication of a number of new historical novels about the Anglo-Scottish Wars I decided to revisit Tranter's works about Wallace and Robert the Bruce before reading the newer writings.
Flowers of Chivalry continues the story of Scotland immediately after death of Robert the Bruce and the succession of the child king David II. The novel follows on from Tranter's Bruce Trilogy, (Steps to the Empty Throne, Price of the King's Peace and Path of the Hero King), and is the story of Sir William Douglas, the Knight of Liddesdale, known as the Flower of Chivalry and Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalwolsey. These two valiant knights did more than any others to hold together the free kingdom that Robert the Bruce had won and secure his son on the throne.
Whilst a stand alone novel the reader will benefit from having read the Bruce Trilogy to really appreciate the historical background and likewise Flowers of Chivalry completes the story of the Bruce dynasty.
Tranter's vivid prose as always flows seamlessly through the story and brings to life the characters and historical settings. As a celebrated historian, Tranter's books were always meticulously researched, accurate and full of historical detail and minutiae giving his stories a feeling of truth and reality that very few authors of fiction ever achieve.
Thank you Mr.Tranter for your contribution to literature, your prolific output which would keep any reader content for years, and your determination to bring readable Scottish history to the people.
You are sorely missed.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Slow starter but very surprising ending
2 May 2006
Format:Paperback
Over all a good, not great Tranter novel. This was the story of Sir Alexander Ramsay, Lord and Knight of some standing in Scotland. He struggles and strives through the chaos after Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray and Regent for the child King David II, dies. Alexander comes of age and eventually rises to become a sheriff, Warden of the Marches and Captain of Roxburgh Castle. The book covers the many Regents who rise and fall in rapid succession along with the deaths in battle of most of the older nobility against England's Edward III's new campaign to claim paramountcy of Scotland. A lot of battles and politics and it seems that there is a minimal amount of Ramsay's personnel life and dialogue. The book seemed to hold a majority of Third person narration. The story was a bit slow going but I was totally caught off guard by the ending. The chaos that reigned after Robert the Bruce dies is amazing. It shows the trouble with child monarchs.
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