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An examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry"
has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages. One of the
most difficult and complex ethical and cultural codes to define,
chivalry has proved a flexible, ever-changing phenomenon,
constantly adapted in the hands of medieval knights, Renaissance
princes, early modern antiquarians, Enlightenment scholars, modern
civic authorities, authors, historians and re-enactors. This book
explores the rich variations in how the Middle Ages were
conceptualised and historicised to illuminate the plurality of uses
of the past. Using chivalry as a lens through which to examine
concepts and uses of the medieval, it provides a critical
assessment of the ways in which medieval chivalry became a
shorthand to express contemporary ideals, powerfully demonstrating
the ways in which history could be appropriated. The chapters
combine attention to documentary evidence with what material
culture can tell us, in particular using the built environment and
the landscape as sources to understand how the medieval past was
renegotiated. With contributions spanning diverse geographic
regions and periods, it redraws current chronological boundaries by
considering medievalism from the late Middle Ages to the present.
Katie Stevenson is Senior Lecturer in Late Mediaeval History and
Director of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research at the
University of St Andrews; Barbara Gribling is a Junior Research
Fellow in the Department of History at Durham University.
Contributors: David W. Allan, Stefan Goebel, Barbara Gribling,
Steven C. Hughes, Peter N. Lindfield, Antti Matikkala, Rosemary
Mitchell, Paul Pickering, Katie Stevenson
An examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry"
has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages. One of the
most difficult and complex ethical and cultural codes to define,
chivalry has proved a flexible, ever-changing phenomenon,
constantly adapted in the hands of medieval knights, Renaissance
princes, early modern antiquarians, Enlightenment scholars, modern
civic authorities, authors, historians and re-enactors. This book
explores the rich variations in how the Middle Ages were
conceptualised and historicised to illuminate the plurality of uses
of the past. Using chivalry as a lens through which to examine
concepts and uses of the medieval, it provides a critical
assessment of the ways in which medieval chivalry became a
shorthand to express contemporary ideals, powerfully demonstrating
the ways in which history could be appropriated. The chapters
combine attention to documentary evidence with what material
culture can tell us, in particular using the built environment and
the landscape as sources to understand how the medieval past was
renegotiated. With contributions spanning diverse geographic
regions and periods, it redraws current chronological boundaries by
considering medievalism from the late Middle Ages to the present.
Katie Stevenson is Senior Lecturer in Late Mediaeval History and
Director of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research at the
University of St Andrews; Barbara Gribling is a Junior Research
Fellow in the Department of History at Durham University.
Contributors: David W. Allan, Stefan Goebel, Barbara Gribling,
Steven C. Hughes, Peter N. Lindfield, Antti Matikkala, Rosemary
Mitchell, Paul Pickering, Katie Stevenson
A detailed analysis of the political, social and cultural aspects
of the British orders of knighthood in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. `Sheds considerable new light on the nature,
development and functions of the orders in a key phase of their
history, and goes a long way to explaining how such archaic
institutions could flourish in a culture that is commonly thought
anti-traditional and especially hostile to the "middle ages"'.
Professor JONATHAN BOULTON, University of Notre Dame. This is the
first comprehensive study to set the British orders of knighthood
properly into the context of the honours system - by analysing
their political, social and cultural functions from the Restoration
of the monarchy to the end of George II's reign. It examines the
revival of the Order of the Garter and the proposalsto establish
the Orders of the Royal Oak and the Esquires of the Martyred King
at the Restoration, the foundation [1687] and the revival [1703-4]
of the Order of the Thistle as well as the foundation of the Order
of the Bath [1725]. It establishes just how central a part the
orders played in the British high political life and its
comprehensive and multidimensional approach carefully contrasts the
idealistic discourse of virtue and honour to the real workings of
the honours system; it also makes the case for the 'Chivalric
Enlightenment'. The 'orders over the water', the Garter and the
Thistle conferred by the Jacobite claimants, are discussed for the
first time in the context of the established British honours
system. Overall, the comparison between the socially very
restricted British and the increasingly meritocratic Continental
orders highlights the isolation of the British honours system from
the European tendencies.
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