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

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

Harvey, Ruth
Putter, Ad
Church, Stephen D.

Hardcover

Series: Medieval Knighthood, Book 5

Medieval & Renaissance History

ISBN10: 0851156282
ISBN13: 9780851156286
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Nov 23 1995
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.77
Height: 1.07 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.49
Language: English
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

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