![]() Orders of knighthood, awards, and the Holy See. She offers the first synthesis of this scholarship in accessible form inviting general readers as well as students and professional scholars to a new understanding of aristocratic role and function.Ĭardinale, Hyginus Eugene. Bouchard presents bold new interpretations of medieval literature as both reflecting and criticizing the role of the nobility and its behavior. She incorporates throughout a consideration of noble women and the nobility's attitude toward women. Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families their relationships with peasants, townspeople, and clerics and the images of them fashioned in medieval literary texts. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. 'Strong of Body, Brave and Noble': Chivalry and Society in Medieval France. Southern Illinois University Press, 1972.ĭidsbury, Manchester, England : Morten, 1980.īouchard, Constance Brittain. revised edition.Ĭlick Here to Order Paperback via Amazon Books.īoalt, Gunnar. Tournaments: Jousts,Ĭhivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages.īarber, Richard. Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press, 1982.Ĭlick Here to Order Hardcover via Amazon Books.īarber, Richard and Barker, Juliet. (1992) Double Vision: Historiographers, Chroniclers, RomancesĪnd the Invention of Royal Character, 1050-1377.īarker, Juliet R.V. "'Mon Pais et ma Nation': Breton Identity in the Fourteenth Century."Īnderson, Carolyn Bernadette. War, Literature, and Politics in the Late Middle Ages.Įssays include: "The Tree of Battles of Honore BouvetĪnd the Laws of War," "Chivalry, Nobility, and the Man-at-Arms," A Historical Comparative Study.Īllmand, C.T. (1993) Richard the Lion Heart and SalahĪd-Din Al-Ayyubi. " Fighting for Fun? What Was At Stake in Formal Deeds of Arms of the 14th Century?" Delivered at Nipissing University, March 7, 2001.Īljouharah bent Saleh ben Abd-Arrahman Almayman. ![]() He also considers the methods the peasants responded in attempts to protect themselves. He describes the brutality of the war, and the numerous occassions upon which the living conditions of the peasants were made intolerable by the combatants of both sides. Wright begins by examing the chivalric ideals, and their lack of effect in protecting peasants from the depredations and greed of those in power. Knights and Peasants: The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside. In it Kaeuper examines the ideals expressed within the literature of the day (especially the chivalric manuals), and compares those ideals to the accepted high levels of violence within medieval culture. This is one of the more important books that I've seen published in recent years about chivalric ideals. ![]() Search the catalog below for items you don't see here: Items with individual links may be ordered online from ![]() Chivalry Bibliography - Modern Medieval History Books ![]()
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