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Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages

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Chivalry
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Crusade
Elite Conduct
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Europe
Gender
High Middle Ages
Knighthood
Mercenaries
Social Identity

Product details

  • ISBN 9789462701700
  • Weight: 495g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Nov 2020
  • Publisher: Leuven University Press
  • Publication City/Country: BE
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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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David Crouch is former Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull and a Fellow of the British Academy.