A companion to chivalry /
Chivalry lay at the heart of elite society in the Middle Ages, but it is a nebulous concept which defies an easy definition. More than just a code of ethical behaviour, it shaped literary tastes, art and manners, as well as social hierarchies, political events and religious practices; its impact is...
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| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
The Boydell Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The origins and diffusion of chivalry
- 2. The organisation of chivalric society
- 3. The secular orders : chivalry in the service of the state
- 4. The military orders
- 5. Marshalling the chivalric elite for war
- 6. Chivalric violence
- 7. Chivalry in the tournament and pas d'armes
- 8. Heraldry and heralds
- 9. Arms and armour
- 10. Constructing chivalric landscapes : aristocratic spaces between image and reality
- 11. Gendered chivalry
- 12. Chivalric literature
- 13. Manuals of warfare and chivalry
- 14. The end of chivalry? Survivals and revivals of the Tudor age
- 15. Chivalric medievalism.