The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knig

Latest research on the chivalric ethos of western Europe,10c-15c, from the practical (houses, armour) to the intellectual [conceptof holy war, loyalty, etc.].

List of contents

Preface: The Strawberry Hill Conferences
Introduction
The Status of the Squire: the Northern Evidence - Matthew Bennett
The Game of Chess: An Aspect of Medieval Knightly Culture - Richard G Eales
Anglo-Norman Knightly Burials - Brian Golding
The Tournament and Chivalry in German Tournament Books of the Sixteenth Century and in the Literary Works of Emperor Maximilian IMaximilian I - William Henry Jackson
Gadifer de La Salle: A Late Medieval Knight Errant - Maurice H Keen
Knights and Knighthood in Germany in the Central Middle Ages - Richard Mortimer
Knights and Burgesses in the Feudal Epic - Peter S Noble
The Ideal Knight as presented in some French Narrative Poems, c. 1090-c. 1240: An Outline Sketch - Sally North
The Occitan Squire in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -
The Knight, his Arms and Armour in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries - Ian Peirce ***
The Prince Answers Back: 'Les Enseignemens de Théodore Paliologue' - D J A Ross

About the author

Christopher Harper-Bill, Ruth Harvey

Summary

Latest research on the chivalric ethos of western Europe,10c-15c, from the practical (houses, armour) to the intellectual [conceptof holy war, loyalty, etc.].

Product details

• Authors: Christo Harper-Bill, Christopher Harper-Bill
• Assisted by: Christopher Harper-Bill (Editor), Ruth Harvey (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2009
• EAN: 9780851154428
• ISBN: 978-0-85115-442-8
• Series: Ideals and Practice of Knighth; Ideals and Practice of Knighth; Ideals and Practice of Knighthood
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Enzyklopädien und Nachschlagewerke, Familiengeschichte, Ahnenforschung, HISTORY / Medieval, History - General History, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry