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Language: en
Pages: 445
Pages: 445
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Richard Kaeuper presents a new analysis of chivalry, re-interpreting it as a fundamental aspect of medieval society.
Language: en
Pages: 0
Pages: 0
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Popular views of medieval chivalry—knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering from battlements—were inherited from the nineteenth-century Rom
Language: en
Pages: 124
Pages: 124
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-01 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined t
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Medieval Europe was a rapidly developing society with a problem of violent disorder. Professor Kaeuper's original and authoritative study reveals that chivalry
Language: en
Pages: 220
Pages: 220
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern