Download or read book Strong of Body Brave and Noble written by Constance Brittain Bouchard and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families; their relationships with peasants, townspeople, and clerics; and the images of them fashioned in medieval literary texts. She incorporates throughout a consideration of noble women and the nobility's attitude toward women. Research in the last two generations has modified and expanded modern understanding of who knights and nobles were; how they used authority, war, and law; and what position they held within the broader society. Even the concepts of feudalism, courtly love, and chivalry, once thought to be self-evident aspects of medieval society, have been seriously questioned. Bouchard presents bold new interpretations of medieval literature as both reflecting and criticizing the role of the nobility and their behavior. She offers the first synthesis of this scholarship in accessible form, inviting general readers as well as students and professional scholars to a new understanding of aristocratic role and function.
Download or read book Chivalry written by Léon Gautier and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion to Chivalry written by Robert W. Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.
Download or read book Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages written by David Crouch and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages written by Henry Hallam and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daughters of Chivalry written by Kelcey Wilson-Lee and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized – and largely mythical – notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of the great English king, Edward I. The lives of these sisters – Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth – ran the full gamut of experiences open to royal women in the Middle Ages. Living as they did in a courtly culture founded on romantic longing and brilliant pageantry, they knew that a princess was to be chaste yet a mother to many children, preferably sons, meek yet able to influence a recalcitrant husband or even command a host of men-at-arms. Edward’s daughters were of course expected to cement alliances and secure lands and territory by making great dynastic marriages, or endow religious houses with royal favour. But they also skilfully managed enormous households, navigated choppy diplomatic waters and promoted their family’s cause throughout Europe – and had the courage to defy their royal father. They might never wear the crown in their own right, but they were utterly confident of their crucial role in the spectacle of medieval kingship. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, Daughters of Chivalry offers a rich portrait of these spirited Plantagenet women. With their libraries of beautifully illustrated psalters and tales of romance, their rich silks and gleaming jewels, we follow these formidable women throughout their lives and see them – at long last – shine from out of the shadows, revealing what it was to be a princess in the Age of Chivalry.
Download or read book Righteous Order written by Jordan Pitman and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are my ways your ways," declares the Lord. "The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice." The inheritance of the nations was foreknown from the foundation of the world. The Lord over all is the inheritance and the foundation. The Lord has declared all his works to be perfect, and to reign over the nations. This book is an exposition on the perfection of his law, and on the nature of his reign over the olam haBa. Beginning with an exegesis spanning from Genesis to John, every word spoken by God as prescriptive of or warranting action is listed, in order, excluding those mitzvot pertaining to the temple, priesthood, or sacrifices. It is these mitzvoth that which constitute the perfect law that God ordained from the foundation, and these mitzvoth that show us how we are to live in God's will. Following this exegesis, the perfection of the law is revealed in its reconstitution and philosophy and in how Christians are to responsibly implement his laws and steward the nations of the world. Lastly, this book endeavors to show the areas of life that God created for us to live in and the institutions that he prescribed for us to partake of and the interrelatedness of all made by God. This concluding section reasserts traditional understandings of how we are to live our lives in every area of life created by God, and shows how this understanding is naturally and necessarily derivative of the biblical mitzvoth, and how the world engendered thereby is ideal for human living. In this modern world where so many institutions and relationships exist that have no biblical foundation, it is increasingly the common Christian experience to feel utterly lost and alienated amidst the secular world. Simply put, this is precisely because we, as a nation, have forsaken the way to live given us by God, and this is my answer for all those hurt and wandering Christians.
Download or read book A Higher Call written by Adam Makos and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.”—CNN • “A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.”—USA Today • “Oh, it’s a good one!”—Fox News A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Devotion, now a Major Motion Picture. December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber’s tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler—and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger... What happened next would defy imagination and later be called “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.” The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as “top secret.” It was an act that Franz could never mention for fear of facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search the world for each other, a last mission that could change their lives forever.
Download or read book The History of the Crusades written by Charles Mills and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quarterly Review of Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chivalry written by Maurice Hugh Keen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social importance of chivalry as a secular ideal during the Middle Ages, traces the origins of knighthood and chivalry, and looks at chivalric rituals and literature.
Download or read book View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages written by Henry Hallam and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Download or read book The Cyclop dia of Fraternities written by Albert Clark Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Young Knights of the Empire Their Code and Further Scout Yarns written by Baron Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns" by Baron Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Lord Baden-Powell Of Gillwell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell, was a British Army officer, writer, founder, and first Chief Scout of the worldwide Scout Movement. In this book, he elaborates on the beginning principles of the scout movement, including the honor and loyalty needed to truly take part.
Download or read book Wade Hampton written by Rod Andrew Jr. and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the South's most illustrious military leaders, Wade Hampton III was for a time the commander of all Lee's cavalry and at the end of the war was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer. Yet for all Hampton's military victories, he also suffered devastating losses in his family and personal life. Rod Andrew's critical biography sheds light on his central role during Reconstruction as a conservative white leader, governor, U.S. senator, and Redeemer; his heroic image in the minds of white southerners; and his positions and apparent contradictions on race and the role of African Americans in the New South. Andrew also shows that Hampton's tragic past explains how he emerged in his own day as a larger-than-life symbol--of national reconciliation as well as southern defiance.
Download or read book The Romance of Arthur written by James J. Wilhelm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism written by David J. B. Trim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume probes the meaning and significance of military 'professionalism'; considers whether it required the waning of the chivalric ethos or merely resulted in it; and assesses the influence of both value systems on the rise of Western states.