The world of medieval chivalry is at once glamorous and violent, alluring yet alien. Our popular views of the period are largely inherited from the nineteenth-century romantics, for whom chivalry evoked images of knights in shining armour, competing for the attention of fair ladies - with pennons and streamers fluttering from castle battlements.But what is the reality? Were the rituals and romance of chivalry designed to provide an escape from the brutal facts of almost continuous warfare? Or did they instead help regulate the conduct of war and moderate its violent excesses?Nigel Saul charts the introduction of chivalry by the Normans, the rise of the knightly class as a social elite, the fusion of chivalry with kingship in the fourteenth century and the influence of chivalry on literature, religion and architecture. He shows us a world of kings and barons, castles and cathedrals - a world shaped by Richard the Lionheart and the Crusades, by Magna Carta and the rule of law, by battles like Bannockburn and Crecy, by the Black Death and by tournaments, round tables and the cult of Arthurianism.
Vorwort
An exciting and vivid examination of what the world of medieval chivalry was really like, and the role it played in the history of medieval England
Autorentext
Vorwort
An exciting and vivid examination of what the world of medieval chivalry was really like, and the role it played in the history of medieval England
Autorentext
Nigel Saul is Professor of Medieval History in the University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries. His publications include Richard II, A Companion to Medieval England, Death, Art and Memory in Medieval England and, most recently, The Three Richards.
Titel
For Honour and Fame
Untertitel
Chivalry in England, 1066-1500
Autor
EAN
9781409027546
ISBN
978-1-4090-2754-6
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
09.06.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
3.35 MB
Anzahl Seiten
432
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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