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…
"Few books have weathered the test of time as well as Frank Barlow's classic survey of late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England from the threshold of the Norman Conquest to the aftermath of Magna Carta." "This Fifth Edition, the first reworking of the text for a decade, has bee…
The Middle Ages re-created through the cast of pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales. Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer’s poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court—men and women who s…