Medieval Chivalry

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Best version of the book. Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Part I An Approach to Chivalry: Was it Real and Practical? 1 The Reality of Medieval Chivalry The View Through Romantic Spectacles The Practicality of Chivalry 2 Models of Medieval Chivalry Core Values in Five Model Knights Chivalric Balance and Pragmatism Part II Three Broad Chronological Phases 3 Phase One: Knighthood Becoming Chivalry Chivalric Function - Military Technique and Technology Function and Status: Great Lords Function and Status: Milites Early Chivalric Ideology? 4 Phase Two: Knighthood and Chivalry Fuse Continuing Warrior Function Expanding Chivalric Ranks Mature Ideology Changing Legal Status 5 Phase Three: Chivalry Beyong Formal Knighthood Narrowing of Formal Knightly Ranks Toward an Expanded and More Informal Chivalry The State and the New Learning Chivalric Transformation Part III The Privileged Practice of Violence 6 Chivalry and War Was Chivalry Warfare a Game of Gentlemen? Knight Versus Knight and a Law of Arms Knights Versus Commoners Conclusion 7 Tournament Evolving Forms Tournament, Society, and Authority Part IV Chivalry, Governing Institutions, and Ideals 8 Kings and Knights Chivalry and the Emerging State Knighthood and the Ordered Realm Conclusion 9 Chivalry in Dialogue with Religious Ideals Context: Crusade and Warfare in General Context: Cultural Obssesion with Asceticism Theological Constructs as Chivalric Buttresses Conclusion: Chivalry as a Species of Lay Piety Part V The World of Chivalric Emotions 10 Love and Amity, Men and Women Preliminary Cautions Starting Neat the End with Malory's Views The Intensity of Warrior Attraction Conclusion 11 Anger, Wrath, Fear, Thirst for Vengeance Taking the Pulse of Knightly Emotions Fear and its Antidotes Conclusion Reflections Selected Bibliography Printed Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index