{"product_id":"medieval-knighthood-v","title":"Medieval Knighthood V","description":"Cumulatively [the volumes] are of increasing value as repositories of scholarship on the multi-dimensional subject of knighthood ... highly informative and useful. ALBION\n\nStudies 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.\n\n  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. \n\n  Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, MATTHEW BENNETT, JONATHAN BOULTON, MICHAEL CLANCHY, CHARLES COULSON, RUTH HARVEY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, AD PUTTER","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54217294938456,"sku":"9780851156286","price":92.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780851156286__676532eb7afa6.jpg?v=1741156986","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/medieval-knighthood-v","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}