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Holy warrior : the religious ideology of chivalry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaeuper, Richard W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Penn. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
Chivalry > Religious aspects.
Chivalry > Europe > History > To 1500.
Knights and knighthood > Europe > History > To 1500.
Europe > Church history > 600-1500.
Chivalry in literature.
Civilization, Medieval.
Table of Contents:
  • Violent knights, holy knights
  • Model knight/authors as guides
  • The religious context for chivalric ideology
  • Independence in knightly piety
  • Knightly ideology developed and disseminated
  • The hero and the suffering servant
  • Knighthood and the new lay theology : ordines and labor
  • Knighthood and the new lay theology : confession and penance
  • Writing the death certificate for chivalric ideology.