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The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood II
Papers from the Third Strawberry Hill Conference, 1986
Edited by Christopher Harper-Bill
Edited by Ruth Harvey


`This wide-ranging and instructive collection makes a valuable addition to the fast-growing body of work on medieval chivalry.' HISTORY
The Strawberry Hill Conferences were designed to bring together historians and literary scholars whose interests focus on medieval history. Full details of papers available on request.

 

DETAILS

8 b/w illustrations
159 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
13 digit ISBN: 9780851154930
Binding: Hardback
First published: 07/Apr/1988
Price: 90.00 USD / 45.00 GBP
Imprint: Boydell Press
Series: Ideals and Practice of Knighthood
Subject: Medieval History

BIC class: HBCH

STATUS: Reprinting. Copies will be available soon.
Details updated on 18/11/2008

Contents
   Preface
   Introduction
1   Strategies of Lordship in Angevin England and the Career of William Marshal
David Crouch
2   From Clerk to Knight: Changing Orders
Jean Dunbabin
3   Knights and Knighthood in Girart de Rousillon
W. Mary Hackett
4   The Depiction of Battle in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm
Martin H Jones
5   The Quest for Identity and the Importance of Lineage in Thirteenth-Century French Prose Romance
Elspeth Kennedy
6   'Cavalaria et Orgueill': Duke William IX of Aquitaine and the Historian
Jane P. Martindale
7   Military Surgery: Knights, Sergeants and Raimon of Avignon's Version of the Chirurgia of Roger of Salerno [1180-1209]
Linda Paterson

Reviews
`offers interesting and unusual insights into the life of the medieval knight.' Zeitschr - fur Rom. Philol105, 5/6 1989



 

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