Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g
Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-924458-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Medieval Europe was a rapidly developing society with a problem of violent disorder. Professor Kaeuper's original and authoritative study reveals that chivalry was just as much a part of this problem as it was its solution. Chivalry praised heroic violence by knights, and fused such displays of prowess with honour, piety, high-status, and attractiveness to women. Though the vast body of chivalric literature praised chivalry as necessary to civilization, most texts also worried over knightly violence, criticized the ideals and practices of chivalry, and often proposed reforms. The knights themselves joined the debate, absorbing some reforms, ignoring others, sometimes proposing their own. The interaction of chivalry with major governing institutions ("church" and "state") emerging at that time was similarly complex: kings and clerics both needed and feared the force of the knighthood. This fascinating book lays bare these conflicts and paradoxes which surrounded the concept of chivalry in medieval Europe.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
- Prologue
- Issues and Approaches
- 1: The Problem of Public Order and the Knights
- 2: Evidence on Chivalry and its Interpretation
- The Link with Clergie
- 3: Knights and Piety
- 4: Clergie, Chevalerie, and Reform
- The Link with Royaute
- 6: English Kingship, Chivalry, and Literature
- The Ambivalent Force of Chivalry
- 7: The Privileged Practice of Violence: Worship of the Demi-God Prowess
- 8: Knighthood in Action
- 9: Social Dominance of the Knights
- 10: Knights, Ladies, and Love
- 11: Chanson de Geste and Reform
- 12: Quest and Questioning in Romance
- 13: Chivalric Self-Criticism and Reform
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
