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Popular views of medieval chivalry--knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering from battlements--were inherited from the nineteenth-century Romantics. This is the first book to explore chivalry's place within a wider history of medieval England, from the Norman Co…
Popular views of medieval chivalry--knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering from battlements--were inherited from the nineteenth-century Romantics. This is the first book to explore chivalry's place within a wider history of medieval England, from the Norman Co…
This book examines chivalry's place within the broader history of medieval England, charting the rise of knights as a social elite, chivalry's relationship with kingship in the fourteenth century, aristocratic women and their relationship with chivalric culture, and the influenc…
Popular views of medieval chivalry--knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering from battlements--were inherited from the nineteenth-century Romantics. This is the first book to explore chivalry's place within a wider history of medieval England, from the Norman Co…
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 What's in a Name? -- 2 Kingship in Medieval England -- 3 Richard I -- 4 Richard II -- 5 Richard III -- 6 Kingship, Chivalry and Warfare -- 7 Every Inch a King -- 8 Marriage and Family -- 9 Kingship and Piety -- 10 Sad S…