Peter Coss & Robert W Jones 
A Companion to Chivalry [EPUB ebook] 

A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.


Chivalry lay at the heart of elite society in the Middle Ages, but it is a nebulous concept which defies an easy definition. More than just a code of ethical behaviour, it shaped literary tastes, art and manners, as well as socialhierarchies, political events and religious practices; its impact is everywhere.

This work aims to provide an accessible and holistic survey of the subject. Its chapters, by leading experts in the field, cover a wide range of areas: the tournament, arms and armour, the chivalric society’s organisation in peace and war, its literature and its landscape. They also consider the gendered nature of chivalry, its propensity for violence, and its post-medieval decline and reinvention in the early modern and modern periods. It will be invaluable to the student and the scholar of chivalry alike.


ROBERT W. JONES is a Visiting Scholar in History, Franklin and Marshall College; PETER COSS is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, Cardiff University


Contributors: Richard Barber, Joanna Bellis, Matthew Bennett, Sam Claussen, Peter Coss, Oliver Creighton, David Green, Robert W. Jones, Megan G. Leitch, Ralph Moffat, Helen J. Nicholson, Clare Simmons, David Simpkin, Peter Sposato, Louise J. Wilkinson, Matthew Woodcock

Tabella dei contenuti

Introduction – Robert W. Jones

The Origins and Diffusion of Chivalry – Peter Coss

The Organisation of Chivalric Society – David Simpkin

The Secular Orders: Chivalry in the Service of the State – David Green

The Military Orders – Helen J. Nicholson

Marshalling the Chivalric Elite for War – Robert W. Jones

Chivalric Violence – Samuel A. Claussen and Peter Sposato

Chivalry in the Tournament and
Pas d’Armes – Richard Barber

Heraldry and Heralds – Robert W. Jones

Arms and Armour – Ralph Moffat

Constructing Chivalric Landscapes: Aristocratic Spaces Between Image and Reality – Oliver H. Creighton

Gendered Chivalry – Louise J. Wilkinson

Chivalric Literature – Joanna Bellis and Megan G. Leitch

Manuals of Warfare and Chivalry – Matthew Bennett

The End of Chivalry? Survivals and Revivals of the Tudor Age – Matthew Woodcock

Chivalric Medievalism – Clare A Simmons

Bibliography

Circa l’autore

CLARE A. SIMMONS is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University.