The Knight without the Sword - A Social Landscape of Malorian Chivalry

List of contents

Part 1 Introduction: the three contenders; the gentry; chivalry in the 15th century; Odysseus and Ajax. Part 2 The economy of love: romance and the land; Malorian paradigms of love; propertied love; unpropertied love; the end of the dichotomy. Part 3 The politics of loyalty and friendship: romance, vassalage, and camaraderie; 15th-century political society; questing and politicking; an archetype of good lordship; the origin of a new cycle. Part 4 The myth of gentility and gentleness: two ideas of gentility; the horizon of the Malorian gentleman; gentle knight versus noble knight; the demilitarization of knighthood. Part 5 Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Hyonjin Kim
• Publisher: D. S. Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 410 g
• Series: Arthurian Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies