Richard Kaeuper’s career has examined three salient concerns of medieval society - knightly prowess and violence, lay and religious piety, and public order an

A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.

Richard Kaeuper presents a new analysis of chivalry, re-interpreting it as a fundamental aspect of medieval society.

In popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and due to a long tradition

This study takes the sword beyond it functional role as a tool for killing, considering it as a cultural artifact and the broader meaning and significance it ha