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Chivalry in Medieval England Hardcover – September 6, 2011

by Nigel Saul (Author)

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Popular views of medieval chivalry—knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering from battlements—were inherited from the nineteenth-century Romantics. This is the first book to explore chivalry’s place within a wider history of medieval England, from the Norman Conquest to the aftermath of Henry VII’s triumph at Bosworth in the Wars of the Roses.

Saul invites us to view the world of castles and cathedrals, tournaments and round tables, with fresh eyes. Chivalry in Medieval England charts the introduction of chivalry by the Normans, the rise of the knightly class as a social elite, the fusion of chivalry with kingship in the fourteenth century, and the influence of chivalry on literature, religion, and architecture. Richard the Lionheart and the Crusades, the Black Death and the Battle of Crecy, the Magna Carta and the cult of King Arthur—all emerge from the mists of time and legend in this vivid, authoritative account.

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Hardcover: 440 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; 1st edition (October 15, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674063686
ISBN-13: 978-0674063686
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
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Bring back chivalry!

By Jeri VINE VOICE on November 13, 2013

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Saul argues successfully that chivalry was real, thus neatly overturning modern theories that chivalry was merely a fig leaf covering the usual human preoccupations of murder, plunder etc.

The idea of chivalry began in the early twelfth century during an intellectual awakening that swept across most of Europe. In England, it began when Geoffrey of Monmouth, an obscure clerk, wrote a strongly fictionalized biography of King Arthur. The romantic story of King Arthur seized the imagination, not only of the English, but became a favorite across Europe. A few decades later, Chretien "perhaps the ablest and the most significant of the French romance writers of the Middle Ages " (p 44) rewrote the Arthurian story.

These romances were best sellers among the upper classes, the nobility and the knights. They would alter society for the better until the decline in the late fourteenth century.

Chaucer, in the Wife of Bath tale, shows a knight exhibiting virtue, and thence gaining his reward. "Chaucer's view is that the essence of gentility resided in virtue" (p 175). His noble lineage might prove a knight's nobility; but his gentility depended on courtly conduct and unswerving virtue.

Perhaps the most significant "advice book on noble behavior ...'Liber Urbani' ...emphasized the importance of restraint" (p 191)and compassion instead of aggression. The chivalric ethic stressed courtesy, tact, and good behavior at all times. Chaucer, in the late fourteenth century when chivalry had declined, criticized those knights who had left the ideal of chivalry and were more concerned with profit.

From the early twelfth century to the time of Chaucer, chivalry became a vision of Christian knighthood.Read more ›

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An Excellent Nigel Saul History!

By Barry E. Vinyard on October 7, 2013

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Saul, the author of "Richard II" and "TheThree Richards," among other works, has written a masterful work in "Chivalry in Medieval England.". Covering multiple aspects of his subject ("every aspect" might be a better descriptive phrase), including courtly love and sexuality, an in-depth exploration of knighthood, the use of tournaments as a training ground for military service and chivalry as it touched religion and literature, among others. "Chivalry in Medieval England" is a work which will be of merit both to the casual reader as well as to a serious student of medieval history.

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