Prowess, Piety, and Public Order in Medieval Society

Prowess, Piety, and Public Order in Medieval Society
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004341099

Richard Kaeuper’s career has examined three salient concerns of medieval society - knightly prowess and violence, lay and religious piety, and public order and government - most directly in three of his monographs: War, Justice, and Public Order (Oxford, 1988), Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford, 1999), and Holy Warriors (Penn, 2009). Kaeuper approaches historical questions with an eye towards illuminating the inherent complexities in human ideas and ideals, and he has worked to untangle the various threads holding together cultural constructs such as chivalry, licit violence, and lay piety. The present festschrift in his honor brings together scholars from across disciplines to engage with those same concerns in medieval society from a variety of perspectives. Contributors are: Bernard S. Bachrach, Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Samuel A. Claussen, David Crouch, Thomas Devaney, Paul Dingman, Daniel P. Franke, Richard Firth Green, Christopher Guyol, John D. Hosler, William Chester Jordan, Craig M. Nakashian, W. Mark Ormrod, Russell A. Peck, Anthony J. Pollard, Michael Prestwich, Sebastian Rider-Bezerra, Leah Shopkow, and Peter W. Sposato.

A Companion to Chivalry

A Companion to Chivalry
Author: Robert W. Jones
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783273720

A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.

Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West

Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2023-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004686363

This is Volume One of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare as well as their transformative and power- and identity-building potential across political communities of medieval Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Covering the period ca. 900 and 1500, the work takes theoretical, textual and practical approaches to the research on religious warfare, and investigates the connections between, and significance and function of crucial war rituals such as pre-, intra- and postbellum rites, as well as various activities surrounding the military life of individuals, polities, and corporates. Contributors are Robert Antonín, Robert Bubczyk, Dariusz Dąbrowski, Jesse Harrington, Carsten Selch Jensen, Sini Kangas, Radosław Kotecki, Gregory Leighton, Kyle C. Lincoln, Jacek Maciejewski, Yulia Mikhailova, Max Naderer, László Veszprémy, and Dušan Zupka.

Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages

Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages
Author: David Crouch
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9462701709

In popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and due to a long tradition of differing national perspectives and ideological assumptions, few phenomena have continued to be the object of so much academic debate. In this volume leading scholars explore various aspects of knightly identity, taking into account both commonalities and particularities across Western Europe. Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages addresses how, between the eleventh and the early thirteenth centuries, knighthood evolved from a set of skills and a lifestyle that was typical of an emerging elite habitus, into the basis of a consciously expressed and idealised chivalric code of conduct. Chivalry, then, appears in this volume as the result of a process of noble identity formation, in which some five key factors are distinguished: knightly practices, lineage, crusading memories, gender roles, and chivalric didactics.

Medieval Chivalry

Medieval Chivalry
Author: Richard W. Kaeuper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2016-05-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521761689

Richard Kaeuper presents a new analysis of chivalry, re-interpreting it as a fundamental aspect of medieval society.

The Household Knights of Edward III

The Household Knights of Edward III
Author: Matthew Hefferan
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783275642

First extended survey of the subject, looking at the knights' activities, roles, background and service.

People, Power and Identity in the Late Middle Ages

People, Power and Identity in the Late Middle Ages
Author: Gwilym Dodd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2021-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 100040918X

This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod’s wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on governance and political resistance, culture, religion and identity.

War and Violence in the Western Sources for the First Crusade

War and Violence in the Western Sources for the First Crusade
Author: Sini Kangas
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2024-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004693599

Medieval Westerners accepted killing for religion and praised the outcome of the First Crusade (1096-1099). At the same time, their attitude to violence was ambivalent. Theologians shunned the practical use of force, while the warrior aristocracy valued the capacity for physical destruction. In the absence of theological doctrine on the practicalities of holy warfare, the first crusaders draw their ideas about killing from diverse and sometimes conflicting traditions. This book answers questions about how religious violence was described, justified and remembered in the sources of the First Crusade. What was the relation between faith, convention, and action?

A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword

A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword
Author: Robert W. Jones
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2023-05-23
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1837650365

This study takes the sword beyond it functional role as a tool for killing, considering it as a cultural artifact and the broader meaning and significance it had to its bearer.