Chivalric Turn - Conduct and Hegemony in Europe Before 1300

istorians have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of Enlightenment historians, seeing superior conduct as 'knightly' behaviour, categorising it as chivalry. This book shows what superior lay conduct was in Europe before chivalry, and maps how and why chivalry emerged and redefined superior conduct in the late twelfth century.

List of contents

• Part I: Introduction


• 1: Conduct, Habitus and Practice


• 2: The Field of Study


• Part II: The Social Field


• 3: The Origins of Cortesia


• 4: The Preudomme


• 5: The Preudefemme


• 6: Villeins, Villains and Vilonie


• 7: The Courtly Habitus


• Part III: Stress in Courtly Society


• 8: The Insurgent Woman


• 9: The Table


• 10: The Enemy


• Part IV: Hegemony


• 11: The Conspiracy of Deference


• 12: The Disruptive Knight


• 13: The Noble Knight


• 14: The Chivalric Virus

About the author

David Crouch is retired Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull. His many books have focused on areas of research surrounding the social and political history of the period from 1000 to 1300, primarily in England and France. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2014.

Summary

istorians have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of Enlightenment historians, seeing superior conduct as 'knightly' behaviour, categorising it as chivalry. This book shows what superior lay conduct was in Europe before chivalry, and maps how and why chivalry emerged and redefined superior conduct in the late twelfth century.

Product details

• Authors: David Crouch, David (Professor of Medieval History Crouch, Crouch David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2020
• EAN: 9780198830344
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883034-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, Archaeology, Social and cultural history, History and Archaeology, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours