Medieval Knighthood V

Papers from the Sixth Strawberry Hill Conference, 1994
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-85115-628-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 282 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 803 g

Reihe: Medieval Knighthood

Cumulatively [the volumes] are of increasing value as repositories of scholarship on the multi-dimensional subject of knighthood. highly informative and useful. ALBION

Studies treating a wide variety of aspects of knighthood. Topics include the way in which the word "knight" has been used, studying the terminology and ritual concerned with "making a knight"; the circumstances and implications ofthe knighting of the social elite of England between 1066 and 1272; the difficulties of distinguishing between knight and clerk, as exemplified by Abelard's multi-faceted image; the debt which Geoffrey de Charny's treatise on chivalry owes to the ideas and ideals of knighthood in Arthurian prose romances; and the linguistic competence of the twelfth-century knightly classes as courtly audience of troubadour song. There are also important contributions onthe warhorse; and on the fortifications of fourteenth-century English towns, arguing that they were more the expression of bourgeois aspirations than a response to serious military threat.

Professor STEPHEN CHURCH teaches in the Department of History, University of East Anglia; Dr RUTH HARVEY is lecturer in French, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.

Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, MATTHEW BENNETT, JONATHAN BOULTON, MICHAEL CLANCHY, CHARLES COULSON, RUTH HARVEY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, AD PUTTER

Autoren/Hrsg.

Church, Stephen D

Harvey, Ruth

Weitere Mitwirkende

Putter, Ad

Coulson, Charles

Kennedy, Elspeth

Boulton, Jonathan

Bennett, Matthew

Clanchy, Michael

Barber, Richard

Harvey, Ruth

Huot, Sylvia

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Hilfswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

`The Medieval Warhorse Reconsidered'. -
`Geoffroi de Charny's `Livre de Chevalerie' and the Knights of the Round Table - Sylvia Huot (Editor)
When is a knight not a knight? - Richard Barber
The medieval warhorse reconsidered - Matthew Bennett
Classic kighthood as nobiliary dignity: the knighting of counts and kings' sons in England, 1066-1272 - Jonathan Boulton
Abelard: knight (Miles), courtier (Palatinus) and man of war (Vir Bellator)'. - Michael Clanchy
Battlements and the bourgeoisie: municipal status and the apparatus of urban defence in later-medieval England'. - Charles Coulson
Languages, lyrics and the knightly classes - Ruth Harvey
Geoffroi de Charny's Livre de Chevalerie and the knights of the round table - Elspeth M Kennedy ***
Knights and clerics at the court of champagne: Chretien de Troyes's romances in context - Ad Putter

Über Autor(innen)

Putter, Ad
Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.

Barber, Richard
RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages.

Church, Stephen D
S.D. Church is Professor in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln.