"The Book of Chivalry" is the most pragmatic of all surviving
chivalric manuals. Written at the height of the Hundred Years War,
it includes the essential commonplaces of knighthood in the
mid-fourteenth century and gives a close-up view of what one knight
in particular absorbed of the medieval world of ideas around him,
what he rejected or ignored, and what he added from his experience
in camp, court, and campaign.Geoffroi de Charny was one of the
quintessential figures of his age, with honors and praise bestowed
upon him from both sides of the English Channel. He prepared the
"Book of Chivalry" as a guide for members of the Company of the
Star, a new but short-lived order of knights created by Jean II of
France in 1352 to rival the English Order of the Garter.Elspeth
Kennedy here edits the original French text of Charny and provides
a facing-page translation for the modern reader. Richard. W.
Kaeuper's historical study places both man and his work in full
context. In the formal themes that give Charny's book structure,
and in his many tangential comments and asides, this work proves a
rich source for investigating questions about the political,
military, religious, and social history of the later Middle Ages.
With this translation, the prowess and piety of knights, their
capacity to express themselves, their common assumptions, their
views on masculine virtue, women, and love once more come vividly
to life.
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