Nobles Knights And Men At Arms In The Middle Ages

Author : Maurice Keen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781852850876

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Nobles, Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages by Maurice Keen Pdf

The literature of chivalry and of courtly love has left an indelible impression on western ideas. What is less clear is how far the contemporary warrior aristocracy took this literature to heart and how far its ideals had influence in practice, especially in war. These are questions that Maurice Keen is uniquely qualified to answer. This book is a collection of Maurice Keen's articles and deals with both the ideas of chivalry and the reality of warfare. He discusses brotherhood-in-arms, courtly love, crusades, heraldry, knighthood, the law of arms, tournaments and the nature of nobility, as well as describing the actual brutality of medieval warfare and the lure of plunder. While the standards set by chivalric codes undoubtedly had a real, if intangible, influence on the behaviour of contemporaries, chivalry's idealisation of the knight errant also enhanced the attraction of war, endorsing its horrors with a veneer of acceptability.

Author : Maurice Hugh Keen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1472599055

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Nobles, Knights, and Men-at-arms in the Middle Ages by Maurice Hugh Keen Pdf

Author : Maurice Keen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441139498

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Nobles, Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages by Maurice Keen Pdf

The literature of chivalry and of courtly love has left an indelible impression on western ideas. What is less clear is how far the contemporary warrior aristocracy took this literature to heart and how far its ideals had influence in practice, especially in war. These are questions that Maurice Keen is uniquely qualified to answer. This book is a collection of Maurice Keen's articles and deals with both the ideas of chivalry and the reality of warfare. He discusses brotherhood-in-arms, courtly love, crusades, heraldry, knighthood, the law of arms, tournaments and the nature of nobility, as well as describing the actual brutality of medieval warfare and the lure of plunder. While the standards set by chivalric codes undoubtedly had a real, if intangible, influence on the behaviour of contemporaries, chivalry's idealisation of the knight errant also enhanced the attraction of war, endorsing its horrors with a veneer of acceptability.

Author : Philippe Contamine
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0631144692

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War in the Middle Ages by Philippe Contamine Pdf

A history of medieval warfare in Europe covers the fifth through the fifteenth century and discusses armor, artillery, strategy, and courage

Author : Frances Gies
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062016652

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The Knight in History by Frances Gies Pdf

A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knight “A carefully researched, concise, readable, and entertaining account of an institution that remains a part of the Western imagination.” —Los Angeles Times Born out of the chaos of the early Middle Ages, the armored and highly mobile knight revolutionized warfare and quickly became a mythic figure in history. From the Knights Templars and English knighthood to the crusades and chivalry, The Knight in History, by acclaimed medievalist Frances Gies, bestselling coauthor of Life in a Medieval Castle, paints a remarkable true picture of knighthood—exploring the knight’s earliest appearance as an agent of lawless violence, his reemergence as a dynamic social entity, his eventual disappearance from the European stage, and his transformation into Western culture’s most iconic hero.

Author : James Barter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1590185803

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A Medieval Knight by James Barter Pdf

Presents the qualifications and training needed, job hazards, and everyday routine of a knight, with primary source quotations and annotated bibliographies.

Author : Christopher Allmand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107392861

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The Hundred Years War by Christopher Allmand Pdf

This is a comparative study of how the societies of late-medieval England and France reacted to the long period of conflict between them commonly known as the Hundred Years War. Beginning with an analysis of contemporary views regarding the war. Two chapters follow which describe the military aim of the protagonists, military and naval organisation, recruitment, and the raising of taxes. The remainder of the book describes and analyses some of the main social and economic effects of war upon society, the growth of a sense of national consciousness in time of conflict, and the social criticism which came from those who reacted to changes and development brought about by war. Although intended primarily as a textbook for students, Dr Allmand's study is much more than that. It makes an important general contribution to the history of war in medieval times, and opens up new and original perspectives on a familiar topic.

Author : Geoffroi de Charny
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208689

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A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry by Geoffroi de Charny Pdf

On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess." On the lady who sees her knight honored: "All of this makes the noble lady rejoice greatly within herself at the fact that she has set her mind and heart on loving and helping to make such a good knight or good man-at-arms." On the worthiest amusements: "The best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can come." Enter the real world of knights and their code of ethics and behavior. Read how an aspiring knight of the fourteenth century would conduct himself and learn what he would have needed to know when traveling, fighting, appearing in court, and engaging fellow knights. Composed at the height of the Hundred Years War by Geoffroi de Charny, one of the most respected knights of his age, A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry was designed as a guide for members of the Company of the Star, an order created by Jean II of France in 1352 to rival the English Order of the Garter. This is the most authentic and complete manual on the day-to-day life of the knight that has survived the centuries, and this edition contains a specially commissioned introduction from historian Richard W. Kaeuper that gives the history of both the book and its author, who, among his other achievements, was the original owner of the Shroud of Turin.

Author : Richard W. Kaeuper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199244584

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Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe by Richard W. Kaeuper Pdf

Medieval Europe was a rapidly developing society with a problem of violent disorder. Professor Kaeuper's original and authoritative study reveals that chivalry was just as much a part of this problem as it was its solution. Chivalry praised heroic violence by knights, and fused such displaysof prowess with honour, piety, high-status, and attractiveness to women. Though the vast body of chivalric literature praised chivalry as necessary to civilization, most texts also worried over knightly violence, criticized the ideals and practices of chivalry, and often proposed reforms. Theknights themselves joined the debate, absorbing some reforms, ignoring others, sometimes proposing their own. The interaction of chivalry with major governing institutions ("church" and "state") emerging at that time was similarly complex: kings and clerics both needed and feared the force of theknighthood. This fascinating book lays bare these conflicts and paradoxes which surrounded the concept of chivalry in medieval Europe.

Author : R. Zeikowitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137094568

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Homoeroticism and Chivalry by R. Zeikowitz Pdf

Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normative 'queer' desire. Zeikowitz articulates possible homoeroticized spectatorial interactions between male readers and imagined or actual model knights, dramatized accounts of same-sex unions, and mutually stimulating - or competing - forces of homosocial and heterosexual desire in chivalric texts, such as Charny's Book of Chivalry , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , and Troilus and Criseyde . He also examines how intimate male bonds are rendered sodomitically-inflected, dangerous attachments in chronicle narratives of the reigns of Edward II and Richard II.

Author : Philip J. Caudrey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783273775

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Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War by Philip J. Caudrey Pdf

An investigation into three of the best-known cases tried under the Court of Chivalry reveals much about gentry military society.

Author : C. T. Allmand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521319234

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The Hundred Years War by C. T. Allmand Pdf

A comparative study of how the societies of late medieval England and France reacted to the long period of conflict between them from political, military, social and economic perspectives.

Author : David Edge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788194046

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Arms and Armor of Medieval Knights by David Edge Pdf

Author : David Edge,John Miles Paddock
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0517103192

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Arms & Armor of the Medieval Knight by David Edge,John Miles Paddock Pdf

More than two hundred illustrations trace the development of medieval arms from their crude beginnings to the beautiful ceremonial armor of the Renaissance

Author : Helen Nicholson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9004120149

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Love, War, and the Grail by Helen Nicholson Pdf

Includes genealogical charts of kings and noblemen associated with the search for the grail.