The Chivalric Turn

Conduct and Hegemony in Europe before 1300

By:

David Crouch

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Hardback

Series:

Oxford Studies in Medieval European History

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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.

Author Biography:

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

Release date Australia

June 13th, 2019

Author

David Crouch

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

368

Series

Oxford Studies in Medieval European History

Dimensions

159x240x29

ISBN-13

9780198782940

Product ID

30448898

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