A Companion to Chivalry (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jones, Robert W; Coss, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.

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 socialhierarchies, political events and religious practices; its impact is everywhere.
This work aims to provide an accessible and holistic survey of the subject. Its chapters, by leading experts in the field, cover a wide range of areas: the tournament, arms and armour, the chivalric society's organisation in peace and war, its literature and its landscape. They also consider the gendered nature of chivalry, its propensity for violence, and its post-medieval decline and reinvention in the early modern and modern periods. It will be invaluable to the student and the scholar of chivalry alike.

ROBERT W. JONES is a Visiting Scholar in History, Franklin and Marshall College; PETER COSS is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, Cardiff University

Contributors: Richard Barber, Joanna Bellis, Matthew Bennett, Sam Claussen, Peter Coss, Oliver Creighton, David Green, Robert W. Jones, MeganG. Leitch, Ralph Moffat, Helen J. Nicholson, Clare Simmons, David Simpkin, Peter Sposato, Louise J. Wilkinson, Matthew Woodcock

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787447172
• Artikelnr.: 58499964

Autorenporträt

Edited by Robert W. Jones and Peter Coss

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Robert W. Jones The Origins and Diffusion of Chivalry
Peter Coss The Organisation of Chivalric Society
David Simpkin The Secular Orders: Chivalry in the Service of the State
David Green The Military Orders
Helen J. Nicholson Marshalling the Chivalric Elite for War
Robert W. Jones Chivalric Violence
Samuel A. Claussen and Peter Sposato Chivalry in the Tournament and Pas d'Armes
Richard Barber Heraldry and Heralds
Robert W. Jones Arms and Armour
Ralph Moffat Constructing Chivalric Landscapes: Aristocratic Spaces Between Image and Reality
Oliver H. Creighton Gendered Chivalry
Louise J. Wilkinson Chivalric Literature
Joanna Bellis and Megan G. Leitch Manuals of Warfare and Chivalry
Matthew Bennett The End of Chivalry? Survivals and Revivals of the Tudor Age
Matthew Woodcock Chivalric Medievalism
Clare A Simmons Bibliography