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French Chivalry: Chivalric Ideals and Practices in Mediaeval France Paperback – October 15, 1957

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The author describes the various ideas that may be called chivalric, illustrates their nature and content from contemporary literature, and attempts to show what effect they had on the ethical principles and practices of the feudal nobility.

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188 pages
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Cornell University Press
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October 15, 1957
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18 years and up
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5 x 0.4 x 7.75 inches
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0801490618
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978-0801490613
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornell University Press (October 15, 1957)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 188 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801490618
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801490613
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.4 x 7.75 inches

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Leonardo de Campos Araujo

Excellent and practical guide

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A good option for those who want to start their studies of medieval chivalry, since France was one of the pioneers in medieval chivalry ... excellent synthesis and radiography of the French cavalry!

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Michael Wischmeyer

Fascinating Look at French Medieval Chivalry

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2003

French Chivalry is superb. I have always enjoyed reading medieval history, and I have accepted that many texts are detailed and scholarly and require substantial effort by the reader.
Well-researched and documented, French Chivalry is an exception. Anyone with a modicum of interest in the Middle Ages will have difficulty putting this book aside. Historian Sidney Painter writes with an engaging style that is both informal and scholarly. I read all 172 pages in two days.
Painter has created a uniquely fascinating examination of French chivalry, contrasting the chivalric ideal with the actual practice of chivalry by French knights from about 1000 to the mid-1400s.
There are only five chapters. The first chapter, The Nobles of France, portrays the French ruling class at the end of the first millennium as little more than undisciplined warriors. Painter examines the political, economic, and military factors that influenced the development of that remarkable code of behavior that we call chivalry.
In chapter 2, Feudal Chivalry, Painter explores the ideals of chivalry that were most readily acceptable to French knights themselves - prowess in battle, loyalty, generosity, knightly courtesy, and love of glory.
Chapter 3 (Religious Chivalry) and 4 (Courtly Love) describe how churchmen and ladies created and advanced their own distinct and rather contradictory conceptions of the perfect nobleman. Despite persistent efforts, the ethical ideals propagated by the ecclesiastical class met with limited success. The ladies did, however, persuade the warrior class to direct more attention away from the battlefield.
The final chapter examines how the three somewhat mutually exclusive types of chivalry were reconciled. This story ends as the warrior knight is transformed into (or replaced by) the courtier, a man more concerned with entertaining and pleasing royalty than exhibiting prowess in battle.

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