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A profoundly intelligent book which combines the results for monumental research with elegance and lucidity. DAILY TELEGRAPH (Review of the 1970 edition) The concept of chivalry is one of the central ideas of the medieval world, linking the practicalities of warfare to the highest levels of literary and religious idealism. To understand it, it is necessary to give equal weight to the worlds of reality and imagination in order to examine the complex interaction between the two which produces chivalry. The warriors and knights of early medieval Europe show the first stirrings of a chivalric order. The chansons de geste and the early romances, the biographies and handbooks for aspiring knights, provide an intellectual reflection of the new mood. The physical and social constraints of chivalry were perfectly met by tournaments, which developed from training for warfare into spectacular pageants. The study draws new parallels between chivalry and christian belief, and shows how, from the church's changing attitude to war as reflected in the crusades, the military orders emerged. Only as methods of warfare were transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was the medieval knight finally transformed into the Renaissance courtier. The Knight and Chivalry, first appeared in 1970 and has now been completely revised and updated to take account of the latest research.

Part 1 The feudal warrior: the mounted warrior
the order of knighthood
heroes and warriors - the Chansons de Geste and 12th-century warfare. Part 2 Chivalry and literature: from courtesy to chivalry
the romances of chivalry
chivalric biographies and handbooks. Part 3 Chivalry in the field: the development of the tournament
pas d'armes and 15th-century tournaments
the tournament as chivalric occasion
the knight on the battlefield. Part 4 Chivalry and religion: the Church, warfare and religion: the Church, warfare and Crusades
the military orders in Palestine
the Templars and Hospitallers in exile
the Teutonic knights
the Spanish orders. Part 5 Chivalry and the State: the prince and chivalry
the epic of chivalry revived
critics of chivalry and advocates of reform.

巻冊次: : pbk ISBN 9780851156637

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Revised and fully updated version of a seminal work in the field of chivalry. A combination of scholarship with quite exemplary thoroughness. SPECTATORA profoundly intelligent book which combines the results of monumental research with elegance and lucidity.DAILY TELEGRAPHThe concept of chivalry is oneof the central ideas of the medieval world. It developed out of the unique intellectual and practical climate of the times, and found expression in both words and deeds. Richard Barber's wide knowledge of medieval literature and history gives special depth to his study of this fascinating subject. From the prehistory of chivalry - the warrior-knights of early medieval Europe and their developing social role - he moves to an exploration of the chansons de geste, the early romances, and the biographies and handbooks for aspiring knights, to discover the early expressions of the chivalric code. In an extended survey of tournaments and of the knight on the battlefield in the incessant warfare of the middle ages, he studies chivalry in action. Aspects of chivalry, the tensions inherent in courtly love and honourable warfare, made the church's antagonism inevitable, but also gave rise to the great adventure of the crusades and the foundation of the military orders, here vividly recounted. Last but not least comes the adoption of the ideals of chivalry by the princes of western Europe in the formation of the secular orders, before the knight was ultimately transformed into the renaissance courtier. Second edition, revised, expanded and updated.Dr RICHARD BARBER is the author of The Arthurian Legends, King Arthur: Hero and Legend, Tournaments, biographies of Henry II and the Black Prince and The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe.

Part 1 The feudal warrior: the mounted warrior
the order of knighthood
heroes and warriors - the Chansons de Geste and 12th-century warfare. Part 2 Chivalry and literature: from courtesy to chivalry
the romances of chivalry
chivalric biographies and handbooks. Part 3 Chivalry in the field: the development of the tournament
pas d'armes and 15th-century tournaments
the tournament as chivalric occasion
the knight on the battlefield. Part 4 Chivalry and religion: the Church, warfare and religion: the Church, warfare and Crusades
the military orders in Palestine
the Templars and Hospitallers in exile
the Teutonic knights
the Spanish orders. Part 5 Chivalry and the State: the prince and chivalry
the epic of chivalry revived
critics of chivalry and advocates of reform.

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