Nobles, Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages 1st Edition
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Nobles, Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages 1st Edition

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Full Title

Nobles, Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages 1st Edition
Author(s)

Maurice Keen
Edition

1st Edition
ISBN

9781441139498, 9781852850876
Publisher

Hambledon Continuum
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The literature of chivalry and of courtly love has left an indelible impression on western ideas. What is less clear is how far the contemporary warrior aristocracy took this literature to heart and how far its ideals had influence in practice, especially in war. These are questions that Maurice Keen is uniquely qualified to answer. This book is a collection of Maurice Keen’s articles and deals with both the ideas of chivalry and the reality of warfare. He discusses brotherhood-in-arms, courtly love, crusades, heraldry, knighthood, the law of arms, tournaments and the nature of nobility, as well as describing the actual brutality of medieval warfare and the lure of plunder. While the standards set by chivalric codes undoubtedly had a real, if intangible, influence on the behaviour of contemporaries, chivalry’s idealisation of the knight errant also enhanced the attraction of war, endorsing its horrors with a veneer of acceptability.

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