Nobles, Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages
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Nobles, Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Nobles, Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages

About this book

The literature of chivalry and of courtly love has left an indelible impression on western ideas. What is less clear is how far the contemporary warrior aristocracy took this literature to heart and how far its ideals had influence in practice, especially in war. These are questions that Maurice Keen is uniquely qualified to answer. This book is a collection of Maurice Keen's articles and deals with both the ideas of chivalry and the reality of warfare. He discusses brotherhood-in-arms, courtly love, crusades, heraldry, knighthood, the law of arms, tournaments and the nature of nobility, as well as describing the actual brutality of medieval warfare and the lure of plunder. While the standards set by chivalric codes undoubtedly had a real, if intangible, influence on the behaviour of contemporaries, chivalry's idealisation of the knight errant also enhanced the attraction of war, endorsing its horrors with a veneer of acceptability.

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Information

Publisher
Hambledon Continuum
Year
1996
Print ISBN
9781852850876
eBook ISBN
9781441139498
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Foreword
  5. 1 War, Peace and Chivalry
  6. 2 Chivalry and Courtly Love
  7. 3 Brotherhood-in-Arms
  8. 4 Chivalry, Heralds and History
  9. 5 The Medieval Kings and the Tournament
  10. 6 Chaucer's Knight, the English Aristocracy and the Crusade
  11. 7 Gadifer de La Salle: A Late Medieval Knight Errant
  12. 8 The Jurisdiction and Origins of the Constable's Court
  13. 9 Treason Trials under the Law of Arms
  14. 10 English Military Experience and the Court of Chivalry: The Case of Grey v. Hastings
  15. 11 Some Late Medieval Ideas about Nobility
  16. 12 The Debate about Nobility: Dante, Nicholas Upton and Bartolus
  17. 13 Henry V's Diplomacy
  18. 14 The End of the Hundred Years War: Lancastrian France and Lancastrian England
  19. Index