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

Stephen D. Church (Curatore)

Ruth Harvey (Curatore)

Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1995

Cumulatively [the volumes] are of increasing value as repositories of scholarship on the multi-dimensional subject of knighthood ... highly informative and useful. ALBION 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 ofthe 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 onthe 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

• Curatore: Stephen D. Church, Ruth Harvey
• Editore: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Collana: Medieval Knighthood
• Anno: 1995
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 282 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 608 gr.
• EAN: 9780851156286

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