For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England, 1066-1500 - Couverture rigide

Saul, Nigel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1847920527 ISBN 13 : 9781847920522

Editeur : The Bodley Head Ltd, 2011

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

* The world of medieval chivalry is at once glamorous and violent, alluring yet alien. Our popular views of the period are largely inherited from the nineteenth-century romantics, for whom chivalry evoked images of knights in shining armour, competing for the attention of fair ladies - with pennons and streamers fluttering from castle battlements.

* But what is the reality? Were the rituals and romance of chivalry designed to provide an escape from the brutal facts of almost continuous warfare? Or did they instead help regulate the conduct of war and moderate its violent excesses?

* Nigel Saul 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. He shows us a world of kings and barons, castles and cathedrals - a world shaped by Richard the Lionheart and the Crusades, by Magna Carta and the rule of law, by battles like Bannockburn and Crecy, by the Black Death and by tournaments, round tables and the cult of Arthurianism.

* Structured around the related themes of war, politics and knighthood, For Honour and Fame tells the story of England from the Norman Conquest to the aftermath of Henry VII's triumph at Bosworth in the Wars of the Roses. Wide-ranging, vivid and authoritative, this is the first book to treat chivalry as part of the wider history of medieval England.

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Praise for A Companion to Medieval England:

'A great achievement... elegant, clear and assured' BBC History Magazine

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'Nigel Saul takes us on an elegant tour of the three Richards ... the result is high-quality academic research written with a light attractive spin' The Guardian

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Bodley Head Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1847920527
• ISBN 13: 9781847920522
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432