Chivalry in Medieval England / / Nigel Saul.
Popular views of medieval chivalry—knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering from battlements—were inherited from the nineteenth-century Romantics. This is the first book to explore chivalry’s place within a wider history of medieval England, from the Norman Conquest to the aftermath...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) :; 18 color art illustrations & 3 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Chivalry and History
- 1. The Origins of English Chivalry
- 2. Chivalry and Empire, 1066–1204
- 3. The Making of Chivalric Culture, 1100–1250
- 4. Knighthood Transformed, 1204–90
- 5. Kingship and War, 1272–1327
- 6. Edward III and Chivalric Kingship, 1327–99
- 7. War, Fame and Fortune
- 8. The Face of Chivalric War
- 9. Chivalry and Nobility
- 10. Chivalry and Violence
- 11. Chivalry and Christian Society
- 12. Chivalry and Crusading
- 13. Chivalry and Fortification
- 14. Chivalry and Women
- 15. Memory and Fame
- 16. Chivalric Literature, 1250–1485
- 17. The Wars of the Roses and Yorkist Chivalry
- 18. The Decline of Chivalry
- Conclusion
- Bibliography and List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index