Chivalry / Maurice Keen.
Examines the social importance of chivalry as a secular ideal during the Middle Ages, traces the origins of knighthood and chivalry, and looks at chivalric rituals and literature.
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
1984.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the idea of chivalry
- The secular origins of chivalry
- Chivalry, the church and the crusade
- The ceremony of dubbing to knighthood
- The rise of the tournament
- The historical mythology of chivalry
- Heraldry and heralds
- The idea of nobility
- Arms, nobility and honour
- The secular orders of chivalry
- Pageantry, tournies and solemn vows
- Chivalry and war.