![]() ![]() It was written in 1991, but still it manages to win hearts today by portraying the partiality in Pakistani society, where Muslim patriarchs dominate the. Such an insight can be seen in Tehmina Durrani’s autobiography, My Feudal Lord. Finally in 1216 he was chosen regent of England for the young king, Henry III, and his biography becomes for three years the history of England. The repressive, partial society suppresses her voice and teaches her to be ‘ethnically mute’. Thus his biography depicts the two extremes of feudal society-the landless knight and the rich baron. In the year 1189 by his marriage to the daughter and heiress of Earl Richard of Pembroke, William became a great feudal lord with fiefs in Normandy, England, Wales, and Ireland. The fourth son of John fitz Gilbert, marshal of the king's court, William for the first forty years of his life was a landless knight who devoted most of his time and energy to tournaments. The subject has proved a peculiarly fortunate one. ![]() This is what Sidney Painter had in mind when he wrote a William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England. ![]() As mediaeval society was dominated by the feudal caste, a biography that depicts the position, activities, manners, and thoughts of a member of that class might do much to elucidate the history of the period. ![]()
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