Richard the Lionheart / / Jean Flori, Editions Payot.
Richard I, the Lionheart, remains forever (and perhaps wrongly) the mythical king of England who preferred to wage war than to rule over his empire. The familiar epithet conveys all the principal features of his indomitable character: courage, valour, prowess, the pursuit of glory, the thirst for fa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Map 1. Capetian and Plantagenet Lands in the 12th Century
- Map 2. The Third Crusade, 1191-7
- Chart 1. The Plantagenets
- Chart 2. The Capetians
- Introduction Richard: a 'Roi-Chevalier'?
- PART I Prince, King and Crusader
- 1 The Early Years
- 2 Richard the Younger Son, Count of Poitou (1174-83)
- 3 Richard the Eldest Son, Duke of Aquitaine (1184-9)
- 4 King Richard
- 5 Richard in Sicily (1190-1)
- 6 Cyprus and Acre
- 7 Richard versus Saladin (1191-2)
- 8 The Lion Caged (1192-4)
- 9 Richard versus Philip Augustus (1194-8)
- 10 The Death of the Lion (1199)
- PART II A King as Mirror of Chivalry
- 11 Richard's Image and Chivalry
- 12 Chivalry Imagined before Richard
- 13 Richard and the Three Orders
- 14 Chivalric Prowess
- 15 The King of England's Prowess
- 16 Prowess in Outremer
- 17 Royal Largesse
- 18 Chivalric Conduct
- 19 Richard and Women
- 20 Richard and his Legend
- Bibliography
- Index