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Author: Christopher Harper-Bill
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780851153193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatest research on the chivalric ethos of western Europe 10c-15c. from the practical [houses, armour], to the intellectual [concept of holy war, loyalty, etc.]
Author: David Crouch
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2020-11-30
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9462701709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and due to a long tradition of differing national perspectives and ideological assumptions, few phenomena have continued to be the object of so much academic debate. In this volume leading scholars explore various aspects of knightly identity, taking into account both commonalities and particularities across Western Europe. Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages addresses how, between the eleventh and the early thirteenth centuries, knighthood evolved from a set of skills and a lifestyle that was typical of an emerging elite habitus, into the basis of a consciously expressed and idealised chivalric code of conduct. Chivalry, then, appears in this volume as the result of a process of noble identity formation, in which some five key factors are distinguished: knightly practices, lineage, crusading memories, gender roles, and chivalric didactics.
Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008-11-15
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 0316049832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA look at the life of knights in the Middle Ages and a collection of tales about their adventures.
Author: Thomas Asbridge
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2014-12-02
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0062262076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenowned scholar Thomas Asbridge brings to life medieval England’s most celebrated knight, William Marshal—providing an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it. Caught on the wrong side of an English civil war and condemned by his father to the gallows at age five, William Marshal defied all odds to become one of England’s most celebrated knights. Thomas Asbridge’s rousing narrative chronicles William’s rise, using his life as a prism to view the origins, experiences, and influence of the knight in British history. In William’s day, the brutish realities of war and politics collided with romanticized myths about an Arthurian “golden age,” giving rise to a new chivalric ideal. Asbridge details the training rituals, weaponry, and battle tactics of knighthood, and explores the codes of chivalry and courtliness that shaped their daily lives. These skills were essential to survive one of the most turbulent periods in English history—an era of striking transformation, as the West emerged from the Dark Ages. A leading retainer of five English kings, Marshal served the great figures of this age, from Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine to Richard the Lionheart and his infamous brother John, and was involved in some of the most critical phases of medieval history, from the Magna Carta to the survival of the Angevin/Plantagenet dynasty. Asbridge introduces this storied knight to modern readers and places him firmly in the context of the majesty, passion, and bloody intrigue of the Middle Ages. The Greatest Knight features 16 pages of black-and-white and color illustrations.
Author: Craig Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1107513111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCraig Taylor's study examines the wide-ranging French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the period of the Hundred Years War (1337–1453). Faced by stunning military disasters and the collapse of public order, writers and intellectuals carefully scrutinized the martial qualities expected of knights and soldiers. They questioned when knights and men-at-arms could legitimately resort to violence, the true nature of courage, the importance of mercy, and the role of books and scholarly learning in the very practical world of military men. Contributors to these discussions included some of the most famous French medieval writers, led by Jean Froissart, Geoffroi de Charny, Philippe de Mézières, Honorat Bovet, Christine de Pizan, Alain Chartier and Antoine de La Sale. This interdisciplinary study sets their discussions in context, challenging modern, romantic assumptions about chivalry and investigating the historical reality of debates about knighthood and warfare in late medieval France.
Author: Richard W. Kaeuper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-05-19
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0521761689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Kaeuper presents a new analysis of chivalry, re-interpreting it as a fundamental aspect of medieval society.
Author: S. D. Church
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780851156286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines a wide variety of the aspects of knighthood, ranging from its emergence as an identifiably noble estate to the appropriation of chivalric trappings to serve bourgeois interests.
Author: Daniel Lord Smail
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1442601264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did medieval society deal with private justice, with grudges, and with violent emotions? This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages. The sources collected here illustrate the power and reach of the language of vengeance in medieval European society. They span the early, high, and later middle ages, and capture a range of perspectives including legal sources, learned commentaries, narratives, and documents of practice. Though social elites necessarily figure prominently in all medieval sources, sources concerning relatively low-status individuals and sources pertaining to women are included. The sources range from saints' lives that illustrate the idea of vengeance to later medieval court records concerning vengeful practices. A secondary goal of the collection is to illustrate the prominence of mechanisms for peacemaking in medieval European society. The introduction traces recent scholarly developments in the study of vengeance and discusses the significance of these concepts for medieval political and social history.
Author: Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1843835304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays collected here present the fruits of the most recent research on aspects of the history, politics and culture of England during the long' fourteenth century - roughly speaking from the reign of Edward I to the reign of Henry V. Based on a range of primary sources, they are both original and challenging in their conclusions. Several of the articles touch in one way or another upon the subject of warfare, but the approaches which they adopt are significantly different, ranging from an analysis of the medieval theory of self-defence to an investigation of the relative utility of narrative and documentary sources for a specific campaign. Literary texts such as Barbour's Bruce are also discussed, and a re-evaluation of one particular set of records indicates that, in this case at least, the impact of the Black Death of 1348-9 may have been even more devastating than is usually thought. Chris Given-Wilson is Professor of Late Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews. Contributors: Susan Foran, Penny Lawne, Paula Arthur, Graham E. St John, Diana Tyson, David Green, Jessica Lutkin, Rory Cox, Adrian R. Bell
Author: Joanna Makepeace
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Published: 2012-07-01
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1460854586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCAUGHT BETWEEN LOYALTY AND LOVE Their first meeting was on a battlefield he thought she was a camp follower, and she knew he was the enemy. But though Rosamund Kinnersley fought for her honour, she could not deny one mad moment of longing to give in to his passion for her . Orphaned by the bloody Wars of the Roses, Rosamund and her brother discover that their father's death fighting on the Lancastrian side means their manor could be seized by the Yorkists. And Simon is the enemy knight appointed to act as their guardian. The passionate bond between Rosamund and Simon grows with every meeting but can newfound love survive old loyalties and betrayals?
