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The Order of the Garter 1348-1461 - Chivalry and Politics in Late Medieval England (Hardcover)
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The Order of the Garter 1348-1461 - Chivalry and Politics in Late Medieval England (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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This is the first scholarly study of the political role of the
Order of the Garter during the late middle ages. It evaluates the
relationship between the practical objectives served by the
institution and its status as a chivalric elite. Focusing on the
years between the Garter's inception in 1348 and the deposition of
Henry VI in 1461, the study considers the Order's conception,
companionship and collective activities, and places them against
the political backdrop of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Hugh Collins highlights the potential of the fraternity as an
instrument of political patronage, and attributes its success in
this area to the important balance achieved in the Garter's
constitution and fellowship between pragmatic considerations and
knightly ideas. His examination of the interdependence of these two
facets thus reveals the extent to which political society in the
late middle ages founded its ambitions and aspirations on the cult
of chivalry.
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