A companion to chivalry /
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 behavior, it shaped literary tastes, art and manners, as well as social hierarchies, political events and religious practices. Its impact is e...
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, New York :
Boydell Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 W 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.