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Medieval Knighthood V

By Stephen Church

Medieval Knighthood V

By Stephen Church

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Studies treating a wide variety of aspects of knighthood. Topics include the way in which the word `knight' has been used, studying the terminology and ritual concerned with `making a knight'; the circumstances and implications of the knighting of the social elite of England between 1066 and 1272; the difficulties of distinguishing between knight and clerk, as exemplified by Abelard's multi-faceted image; the debt which Geoffrey de Charny's treatise on chivalry owes to the ideas and ideals of knighthood in Arthurian prose romances; and the linguistic competence of the twelfth-century knightly classes as courtly audience of troubadour song. There are also important contributions on the warhorse; and on the fortifications of fourteenth-century English towns, arguing that they were more the expression of bourgeois aspirations than a response to serious military threat.
Dr STEPHEN CHURCH teaches at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill; Dr RUTH HARVEY is lecturer in French, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, MATTHEW BENNETT, JONATHAN BOULTON, MICHAEL CLANCHY, CHARLES COULSON, RUTH HARVEY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, AD PUTTER
Product details
Number of Pages:
284
Release Date:
1995-12-01
Publication Date:
1995-11-23
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0851156282
ISBN13:
9780851156286
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
593 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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