Chivalric Turn

Conduct and Hegemony in Europe Before 1300
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-878294-0
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of the writers of the Enlightenment, viewing superior conduct as 'knightly' behaviour, and categorising it as chivalry.

Using, for the first time, the full range of the considerable twelfth- and thirteenth-century literature on conduct in the European vernaculars and in Latin, The Chivalric Turn describes and defines what superior lay conduct was in European society before chivalry, and maps how and why chivalry emerged and redefined superior conduct in the last generation of the twelfth century. The emergence of chivalry was only one part of a major social change, because it changed how people understood the concept of nobility, which had consequences for the medieval understanding of gender, social class, violence, and the limits of law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crouch, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Hilfswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

- 1: Conduct, Habitus, and Practice

- 2: Field of Study

- PART TWO: THE SOCIAL FIELD

- 3: The Origins of Cortesia

- 4: The Preudomme

- 5: The Preudefemme

- 6: Villeins, Villains, and Vilonie

- 7: The Courtly Habitus

- PART THREE: STRESS IN COURTLY SOCIETY

- 8: The Insurgent Woman

- 9: The Table

- 10: The Enemy

- PART FOUR: HEGEMONY

- 11: The Conspiracy of Deference

- 12: The Disruptive Knight

- 13: The Noble Knight

- 14: The Chivalric Virus

Über Autor(innen)

David Crouch is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull.