The author begins with the premise that the image we have of the Black Prince is slightly unreal, this being due to an account of him written 30 years later - a... » 

The author begins with the premise that the image we have of the Black Prince is slightly unreal, this being due to an account of him written 30 years later - a picture of 14th-century chivalry as it wanted to see itself. He proceeds to give an account based upon more contemporary sources. «