"The tale of the mysterious knight carried across the water by a swan to the woman he saves and marries is one of the great narrative traditions of the Middle Ages. The version in the German Lohengrin (ca. 1300) is perhaps the most striking. It captures the imagination with the …
The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of the writers of the Enlight…
Salerno im Jahre 1085. Die Nachrichten aus dem byzantinischen Kriegsgebiet sind schlecht: Herzog Robert Guiscard liegt im Sterben. Sein letzter Wunsch ist es, noch einmal seine Frau zu sehen. So drängt Herzogin Sicaildis zum Aufbruch und zwingt die junge Heilerin Ima von Lindisf…
"Fünf gekrönte Häupter und einen goldenen Thron sehe ich hier." Die Alte liess Guillaumes Finger los und lächelte geheimnisvoll. "Das Schicksal Englands liegt in Eurer Hand." England, 12. Jahrhundert: Der junge Guillaume, vierter Sohn eines Barons, träumt davon, Ritter des König…
Includes information on Arthurian romances, Migel de Cervantes Saavedra, Captain Cox, George Gascoigne, Heraldry, Edward Herbert, Ben Johnson, Francis Kirkman, Gautier de Costes de la Calprenede, Robert Laneham, Sir Thomas Malory, John Marston, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Si…
The "custom of the castle" imposes strange ordeals on knights and ladies seeking hospitality - daunting, mostly evil challenges that travelers must obey or even defend. This seemingly fantastic motif, first conceived by Chretien de Troyes in the twelfth century and widely imitat…
Descripción del editor: "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 …
A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.
"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 pra…
