Medieval Knighthood V: Papers from the sixth Strawberry Hill Conference, 1994: 5 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0851156282 ISBN 13: 9780851156286

Casa editrice: Boydell Press, 1995

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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.

Professor STEPHEN CHURCH teaches in the Department of History, University of East Anglia; 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

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• Editore: Boydell Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0851156282
• ISBN 13: 9780851156286
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 282
• Redattore: Church Professor Stephen D., Harvey Professor Ruth