"Strong of Body, Brave and Noble": Chivalry and Society in Medieval France 9780801485480, 9781501713293

"Strong of Body, Brave and Noble": Chivalry and Society in Medieval France 9781501713309

Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a lite

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Chivalry in Medieval England 9780674063693

Popular views of medieval chivalry—knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering from battlements—were inher

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Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Castile 9781783275465, 9781787448469

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Chivalry and violence in medieval europe 9780199244584, 0199244588

This original and authoritative text reveals how chivalry was part of the problem of violence in medieval Europe, not me

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Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England, 890–1215 9781501717246

In this engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female

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Jewish Culture and Society in Medieval France and Germany 9781000948868, 9781472436344, 9780367600280, 1000948862

These studies explore the history of the Jewish minority of Ashkenaz (northern France and the German Empire) during the

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Women's monasticism and medieval society: nunneries in France and England, 890-1215 9780801432033, 9780801486159

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Forged in the Shadow of Mars: Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Florence 9781501761911

In Forged in the Shadow of Mars, Peter W. Sposato traces chivalric ideology's powerful influence on the worldview a

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Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War 9781783273775

"The highest and most sovereign things a knight ought to guard in defence of his estate are his troth and his arms.

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Society and the Sexes in Medieval Islam

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