Автор: Maurice Keen
Название: Chivalry
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 1984
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 364
Язык: English
Размер: 79 MB

Chivalry—with its pageants, heraldry, and knights in shining armor—was a social ideal that had a profound influence on the history of early modern Europe. In this eloquent and richly detailed book, a leading medieval historian discusses the complex reality of chivalry: its secular foundations, the effects of the Crusades, the literature of knighthood, and its ethos of the social and moral obligations of nobility.