A companion to chivalry

by Coss, Peter R. Jones, Robert W., (Military historian)

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Title Statements

Full title :A companion to chivalry / edited by Robert W. Jones and Peter Coss.

Summary

Chivalry lay at the heart of elite society in the Middle Ages, but it is a nebulous concept which defies an easy definition. More than just a code of ethical behaviour, it shaped literary tastes, art and manners, as well as social hierarchies, political events and religious practices; its impact is everywhere.0This work aims to provide an accessible and holistic survey of the subject. Its chapters, by leading experts in the field, cover a wide range of areas: the tournament, arms and armour, the chivalric society's organisation in peace and war, its literature and its landscape. They also consider the gendered nature of chivalry, its propensity for violence, and its post-medieval decline and reinvention in the early modern and modern periods. It will be invaluable to the student and the scholar of chivalry alike.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The Boydell Press
Place of Publication:Woodbridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 338 pages) : : illustrations (some color), maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781787445420, 1787445429
oclc:on1107879508
LC Classification:CR4509
Dewey Decimal:394.7

Introduction -- 1. The origins and diffusion of chivalry -- 2. The organisation of chivalric society -- 3. The secular orders : chivalry in the service of the state -- 4. The military orders -- 5. Marshalling the chivalric elite for war -- 6. Chivalric violence -- 7. Chivalry in the tournament and pas d'armes -- 8. Heraldry and heralds -- 9. Arms and armour -- 10. Constructing chivalric landscapes : aristocratic spaces between image and reality -- 11. Gendered chivalry -- 12. Chivalric literature -- 13. Manuals of warfare and chivalry -- 14. The end of chivalry? Survivals and revivals of the Tudor age -- 15. Chivalric medievalism.