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Studies treating a wide variety of aspects of knighthood. Topics include the way in which the word 'knight' has been used, studying the terminology and ritual concerned with 'making a knight'; the circumstances and implications of the knighting of the social elite of England between 1066 and 1272; the difficulties of distinguishing between knight and clerk, as exemplified by Abelard's multi-faceted image; the debt which Geoffrey de Charny's treatise on chivalry owes to the ideas and ideals of knighthood in Arthurian prose romances; and the linguistic competence of the twelfth-century knightly classes as courtly audience of troubadour song. There are also important contributions on the warhorse; and on the fortifications of fourteenth-century English towns, arguing that they were more the expression of bourgeois aspirations than a response to serious military threat. Dr STEPHEN CHURCH teaches at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill; Dr RUTH HARVEY is lecturer in French, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, MATTHEW BENNETT, JONATHAN BOULTON, MICHAEL CLANCHY, CHARLES COULSON, RUTH HARVEY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, AD PUTTER

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Medieval Knighthood V
• Subtitle: Papers from the sixth Strawberry Hill Conference, 1994
• Author: Stephen Church
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 282
• EAN: 9780851156286
• ISBN: 0851156282
• ID: 04737747
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Weight: 608 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 168 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. November 1995

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