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…
"Sir Torrent of Portingale is a romance written to entertain fifteenth-century audiences with a taste for action-packed tales of love and adventure"--
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 prac…
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 prac…
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 prac…
by Flori, Jean, Aboaf, Marisa, Pico, Stefania
fromPiccola biblioteca Einaudi
Cet ouvrage constitue la première édition d'une version complète de la Chronique de Castille. Peu étudiée et n'ayant fait l'objet que d'éditions partielles, la Chronique de Castille a pourtant connu au Moyen Âge un succès et une postérité considérables. Composée à l'aube du XIVe…
Chivalric culture, soldiers and soldiering, and treason, politics and the court form the main themes of this volume - as is appropriate in a book which honours the distinguished medievalist Maurice Keen.
Chivalric culture, soldiers and soldiering, and treason, politics and the court form the main themes of this volume - as is appropriate in a book which honours the distinguished medievalist Maurice Keen. The essays, all by eminent scholars in the field, c.
L'histoire de la chevalerie depuis ses origines; ses liens avec la noblesse et l'Eglise; les chevaliers et la guerre.
