A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the most important legal institutions of the Middle Ages.
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A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the most important legal institutions of the Middle Ages.
A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the most important legal institutions of the Middle Ages.
Craig Taylor examines French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the Hundred Years War.
Craig Taylor's study examines the wide-ranging French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the period of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). Faced by stunning military disasters and the collapse of public order, writers and intellectuals carefully scrut…
Craig Taylor examines French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the Hundred Years War.
The age of chivalry is not dead. Nor is the powerful allure of the rites of courtly romance. Tales of knights and ladies, honor, valor, and love continue to inspire books, films, and festivals, with the values they express shaping societies across the globe in profound ways even…
Rethinking Chivalry and Courtly Love shows that these two interlinked medieval-era concepts are best understood in light of each other. It is the first book to explore the multicultural origins of chivalry and courtly love in tandem, tracing their sources back to the ancient wor…
The age of chivalry is not dead. Nor is the powerful allure of the rites of courtly romance. Tales of knights and ladies, honor, valor, and love continue to inspire books, films, and festivals, with the values they express shaping societies across the globe in profound ways even…
For centuries, people have been captivated by tales of questing knights, fair ladies, and magical encounters. As someone who grew up immersed in the fantasy genre, transitioning from the Brian Jacques Redwall series as a child to George R.R. Martin's A Song of lce and Fire as an…
The Unicorn Tapestries are a set of seven tapestries, located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Cloisters in New York, of Parisian design and woven in the Southern Netherlands in the late Middle Ages. It has baffled scholars for decades. These tapestries are shrouded in myster…
Chivalry and violence in late medieval Castile
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