{"product_id":"9780851156286-medieval-knighthood-v","title":"Medieval Knighthood V","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePapers from the sixth Strawberry Hill Conference, 1994\u003cbr\u003eCumulatively [the volumes] are of increasing value as repositories of scholarship on the multi-dimensional subject of knighthood . highly informative and useful. ALBION\u003cbr\u003eCumulatively [the volumes] are of increasing value as repositories of scholarship on the multi-dimensional subject of knighthood . highly informative and useful. ALBIONStudies 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 ofthe 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 onthe 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.  Professor STEPHEN CHURCH teaches in the Department of History, University of East Anglia; 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55207512473974,"sku":"9780851156286","price":130.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28730913.jpg?v=1738208000","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780851156286-medieval-knighthood-v","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}