Knighthood and society in the High Middle Ages
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Knighthood and society in the High Middle Ages
（Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, ser. 1 . Studia ; 48）
Leuven University Press, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and due to a long tradition of differing national perspectives and ideological assumptions, few phenomena have continued to be the object of so much academic debate. In this volume leading scholars explore arious aspects of knightly identity, taking into account both commonalities and particularities across Western Europe. Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages addresses how, between the eleventh and the early thirteenth centuries, knighthood evolved from a set of skills and a lifestyle that was typical of an emerging elite habitus, into the basis of a consciously expressed and idealised chivalric code of conduct. Chivalry, then, appears in this volume as the result of a process of noble identity formation, in which some five key factors are distinguished: knightly practices, lineage, crusading memories, gender roles, and chivalric didactics.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer Review Content).
Contributors: Dominique Barthelemy (Sorbonne and EPHE, Paris), David Crouch (University of Hull), Jeroen Deploige (Ghent University), John D. Hosler (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College), Sara McDougall (City University of New York), Jean-Francois Nieus (University of Namur), Eljas Oksanen (Portable Antiquities Scheme, London), Nicholas Paul (Fordham University), Joerg Peltzer (Heidelberg University), Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani (University of Namur), Louise Wilkinson (Canterbury Christ Church University), Claudia Wittig (Ghent University)
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Acknowledgements
David Crouch and Jeroen Deploige Taking the Field: Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages
Part I—Noble Warriors, Warring Nobles
Dominique Barthélemy Chivalry in Feudal Society According to French Evidence
Jörg Peltzer Knighthood in the Empire
Eljas Oksanen Knights, Mercenaries and Paid Soldiers: Military Identities in the Anglo-Norman Regnum
Part II—Knighthood and Lineage
Sara McDougall The Chivalric Family
Jean-François Nieus Sigard’s Belt: The Family of Chocques and the Borders of Knighthood (ca. 980‒1100)
Part III—Martial Ideals in Crusading Memories
John D. Hosler Knightly Ideals at the Siege of Acre, 1189‒1191
Nicholas L. Paul Writing the Knight, Staging the Crusader : Manasses of Hierges and the Monks of Brogne
Part IV—Women in Chivalric Representations
Louise J. Wilkinson The Chivalric Woman
Nicolas Ruffini-Rozani The Knight, the Lady, and the Poet : Understanding Huon of Oisy’s Tournoiement des Dames (ca. 1185‒1189)
Part V—Didactics of Chivalry
Claudia Wittig Teaching Chivalry in the Empire (ca. 1150‒1250)
David Crouch When Was Chivalry? Evolution of a Code
Notes on Contributors Index
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