{"product_id":"church-stephen-medieval-knighthood-v-9780851156286","title":"Medieval Knighthood V","description":"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. \n\u003cbr\u003e\nDr 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","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53761047757142,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/church-stephen-medieval-knighthood-v-9780851156286","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}