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Nobles, Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Nobles, Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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The literature of chivalry and of courtly love has left an
indelible impression on western ideas. What is less clear is how
far the contemporary warrior aristocracy took this literature to
heart and how far its ideals had influence in practice, especially
in war. These are questions that Maurice Keen is uniquely qualified
to answer. This book is a collection of Maurice Keen's articles and
deals with both the ideas of chivalry and the reality of warfare.
He discusses brotherhood-in-arms, courtly love, crusades, heraldry,
knighthood, the law of arms, tournaments and the nature of
nobility, as well as describing the actual brutality of medieval
warfare and the lure of plunder. While the standards set by
chivalric codes undoubtedly had a real, if intangible, influence on
the behaviour of contemporaries, chivalry's idealisation of the
knight errant also enhanced the attraction of war, endorsing its
horrors with a veneer of acceptability.
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