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Emerging in the medieval period, chivalry embodied ideals that elite warriors cherished and practices that formed their profession. In this major new overview, Richard Kaeuper examines how chivalry made sense of violence and war, making it tolerable for elite fighters rather than non-knightly or sub-knightly populations. He discusses how chivalry buttressed status and profession, shaped active piety, and fostered intense warrior attachments and heterosexual relationships. Though showing regional and chronological variations, chivalry at its core enshrined the practice of prowess in securing honor, with this process significantly blessed by religion. Both kingship and church authority sought to direct the great force of chivalry and, despite tensions, finally came to terms with rising knightly status and a burgeoning military role. Kaeuper engages with a wide range of evidence in his analysis, drawing on the chivalric literature, manuscript illumination, and sermon exempla and moral tales.

Preliminary Material /Christopher Guyol -- Introduction /Christopher Guyol -- The Societas Riccardorum and Economic Change /Christopher Guyol -- The Role of Italian Financiers in the Edwardian Conquest of Wales /Christopher Guyol -- Royal Finance and the Crisis of 1297 /Christopher Guyol -- The Frescobaldi of Florence and the English Crown /Christopher Guyol -- Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer /Christopher Guyol -- An Historian's Reading of The Tale of Gamelyn /Christopher Guyol -- Debating Law, Justice, and Constitutionalism /Christopher Guyol -- The King and the Fox: Reaction to the Role of Kingship in Tales of Reynard the Fox /Christopher Guyol -- Literature as Essential Evidence for Understanding Chivalry /Christopher Guyol -- William Marshal, Lancelot, and the Issue of Chivalric Identity /Christopher Guyol -- Chivalry in Barbour's Bruce /Christopher Guyol -- Baudoin De Conde, Violence, and War /Christopher Guyol -- Chivalry: Fantasy and Fear /Christopher Guyol -- Chivalry and the 'Civilizing Process' /Christopher Guyol -- The Societal Role of Chivalry in Romance: Northwestern Europe /Christopher Guyol -- Telling it Like it Was? Mark Twain's Rereading of Chivalry in Malory's Morte Darthur /Christopher Guyol -- Piety and Independence in Chivalric Religion /Christopher Guyol -- Chivalric Violence and Religious Valorization /Christopher Guyol -- John Ruskin, the Medieval Ordines, and Meritorious Suffering /Christopher Guyol -- Vengeance and Mercy in Chivalric Mentalité /Christopher Guyol -- Index /Christopher Guyol.

Preliminary Material -- Debating Law, Justice and Constitutionalism /Richard W. Kaeuper -- The Anglo-Saxon Origins of English Constitutionalism /James Campbell -- Orality and Literacy in the Age of the Angevin Law Reforms /Paul Hyams -- Between England and France: A Cross-Channel Legal Culture in the Late Thirteenth Century /Thomas J. McSweeney -- The Development of Written Custom in England and in France: A Comparative Perspective /Ada-Maria Kuskowski -- Success and Failure of the Medieval Constitution in 1341 /Scott Waugh -- Parliamentary Scrutiny of Royal Ministers and Courtiers in Fourteenth-Century England: The Disgrace of Sir John atte Lee (1368) /W. Mark Ormrod -- The Altered Perspective of Thomas Walsingham's Symbol of Normandy /Christopher Guyol -- Centre and Locality: Perceptions of the Assize Justices in Late Medieval England /Anthony Musson -- The Common Voice in Theory and Practice in Late Fourteenth Century England /Andrew Galloway -- Landscape and the Identity of the Realm /Lynn Staley -- The People, Politics and the Constitution in the Fifteenth Century /Anthony Pollard -- Law, Justice, and Governance: New Views on Medieval Constitutionalism /G.W. Bernard -- Index.

On the great influence of a valiant lord: The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess. On the lady who sees her knight honored: All of this makes the noble lady rejoice greatly within herself at the fact that she has set her mind and heart on loving and helping to make such a good knight or good man-at-arms. On the worthiest amusements: The best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can come. -- Enter the real world of knights and their code of ethics and behavior. Read how an aspiring knight of the fourteenth century would conduct himself and learn what he would have needed to know when traveling, fighting, appearing in court, and engaging fellow knights. Composed at the height of the Hundred Years War by Geoffroi de Charny, one of the most respected knights of his age, A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry was designed as a guide for members of the Company of the Star, an order created by Jean II of France in 1352 to rival the English Order of the Garter. This is the most authentic and complete manual on the day-to-day life of the knight that has survived the centuries, and this edition contains a specially commissioned introduction from historian Richard W. Kaeuper that gives the history of both the book and its author, who, among his other achievements, was the original owner of the Shroud of Turin

"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."--Provided by publisher

Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralised polities through war and conquest; institution building and ideological expression by these same polities; control of extensive trade networks; and the emergence and dominance of religious ecumenes. Attention is also given to the idea of how theories of violence are relevant to the specific historical circumstances discussed in the volume's chapters. A final section on the depiction of violence, both visual and literary, demonstrates the ubiquity of societal efforts to confront meanings of violence during this longue durée.