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The admittance of individuals into a chivalric order was an important tool of late medieval diplomacy which contributed significantly to the reinforcement of political and cultural ties between the order’s leader and admitted member and... more
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      Medieval HistoryMedieval StudiesBosniaChivalry (Chivalry)
The concept of the gentleman amateur was, and remains, an important aspect of upper and middle-class Victorian and Edwardian male identity. Although he remains a significant literary presence, the form and length of time the gentleman... more
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      HistoryCultural HistorySociologyCultural Studies
At the mid point of the sixteenth century, a Neapolitan gentleman, Federico Grisone, published, for the first time, a printed book about the art of training the horse “for the use of war” and on the secrets to “emend his defects”. The... more
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      Renaissance StudiesRenaissanceHorse cultureChivalry (Chivalry)
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      Gender StudiesTudor EnglandChivalry (Chivalry)Masculinity
In the judicial duel, procedure and ceremony collapsed into one another in a way that had powerful resonances for the later Capetians kings of France. What bothered King Louis IX and his grandson Philip IV about duel was its violent and... more
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      Dispute ResolutionChivalry (Chivalry)Medieval FranceMedieval Canon & Roman Law
En la historia de Don Quijote se encuentran ocultas las claves necesarias, entendibles para a todo el que éste espiritualmente preparado, para realizar una inmersión en los ideales caballerescos. Pues, al finalizar la lectura del libro... more
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      Sexuality and chivalry/courtly loveThe Spanish picaresque novel (la novela picaresca)Chivalry (Chivalry)Miguel de Cervantes
In his book Knight’s Gambit, Faulkner used the medieval game of chess, Quixotic imagery, and romance to evoke a morality play (181) by which he underscored the ideals he agreed with, and repudiated those which he rejected from amongst the... more
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      Southern LiteratureSouthern Studies (U.S. South)Sexuality and chivalry/courtly loveArthurian Studies
A paper delivered at the 2013 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan
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      Chivalry (Chivalry)Chivalry (Medieval Studies)Chivalric literatureJohn of Salisbury
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      Medieval LiteratureMedieval HistoryPerformance StudiesMedieval English Literature
Although George R.R. Martin’s Land of Ice and Fire series, and the accompanying HBO television show Game of Thrones, are set in the fantasy land of Westeros, there can be little doubt of its correlation with the medieval world. The... more
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      Medieval HistoryMedieval StudiesBosniaChivalry (Chivalry)
This essay is the first and only exploration of what the German Tradition of Chivalric Arts (Ritterlich Kunst)—with its three main lineages of Liechtenauer, Nürnberg, Gladiatoria—meant by masse for fencing and wrestling. The findings may... more
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      Tactics (Military Science)ViolenceBiomechanicsCombat Sports
Published by Paladin Press in 1999, Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction (TOMAR) remained in print until 2017, when Paladin closed their business. A limited number of copies are available at the URL below. Intended for the... more
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      Chivalry (Chivalry)Chivalry (Medieval Studies)Medieval GermanyMartial Arts of Middle Ages
The following passages from major Fechtbücher (fencing/fight-books) of the German Tradition are meant to show the presence and the relevance of the principle of Indes (Inthereof) as found originally in the Liechtenauer Lineage of... more
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      Tactics (Military Science)ViolenceBiomechanicsCombat Sports
Este trabalho pretende apresentar o Livro da Ordem de Cavalaria (1279-1283), de Ramon Llull como um manual pedagógico não somente para a nobreza, mas também direcionado ao reordenamento de toda a sociedade medieval. Neste manuscrito,... more
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      Medieval HistoryMedieval StudiesChivalry (Chivalry)Medieval Europe
Questo lavoro prosegue un percorso avviato da Erich Köhler e Cesare Segre, che hanno proposto un opportuno ripensamento delle categorie di realismo, realtà e idealizzazione nel e del romanzo medievale, offrendo spunti decisivi per... more
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      PhilologyMedieval LiteratureMedieval French LiteratureMedieval Studies
There was nothing second-rate about the English way of war in the Late Middle Ages, argues Tobias Capwell, Curator of Arms and Armour at London’s Wallace Collection, in a major new study published late last year. The early 15th-century... more
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      Military HistoryMedieval HistoryArms and Armor StudiesLate Medieval
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      Medieval HistoryMedieval StudiesBaltic StudiesChivalry (Chivalry)
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      High Middle AgesChivalry (Chivalry)Chivalry (Medieval Studies)Medival History
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      Sexuality and chivalry/courtly loveTudor EnglandChivalry (Chivalry)Masculinity
Axiom : When a new kind of sword originates and becomes prevalent, then it logically follows that both the sword and its new kind of fencing evolve and become perfected. That is what must have started happening in Chivalric Europe circa... more
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      Medieval HistoryViolenceMedieval StudiesMedievalism
El uso de las cruces en heráldica se inició a consecuencia de las Cruzadas, según la moda importada a Europa por los caballeros que regresaron de Tierra Santa y que, en recuerdo de su gesta en ultramar, blasonaban sus escudos de guerra... more
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      Chivalry (Chivalry)HeraldryNobilityMedieval Nobility
Una nación guerrera como fue España, que tuvo que combatir durante ocho siglos para expulsar de sus tierras al Islam, invasor nunca aceptado, fuera el crisol de una nueva forma de nobleza que se ha forjado a sí misma en el campo de... more
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      Chivalry (Chivalry)HeraldryHeraldry and VexillologyHistoria Medieval
This volume constitutes the most complete version of the rolls of the Foreign Honorific Peerage of the Royal House of Abanyiginya of Rwanda that can currently be assembled, given the nature and extent of the documents at present available... more
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      HistoryChivalry (Chivalry)NobilityRwandan history and philosophy
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      Chivalry (Chivalry)Honor-Shame cultureRenaissance Florencemedieval Florence
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      Chivalry (Chivalry)NobilityHistory of WarMilitary Service
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      Chivalry (Chivalry)TournamentsChivalry (Medieval Studies)15th Century Burgundy
This article explores the significance of writing history for a late medieval Antwerp patrician family. In recent historiography, these families (in this case Van Halmale) have not received the attention they deserve, in part because... more
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      Late Middle AgesMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesMedieval Historiography
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      Art HistoryMedieval StudiesJewish HistoryMedieval Iberian History
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      Chivalry (Chivalry)Medieval Heraldry
MONTANER, Alberto, «La emblemática caballeresca y la identidad del caballero», en Libros de caballerías (de «Amadís» al «Quijote»): Poética, lectura, representación e identidad, Salamanca, SEMYR, 2002 [ISBN 84-932346-2-1], pp. 267-306.
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      History of DressArms and Armor StudiesChivalry (Chivalry)Heraldry
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      ClassicsMedieval StudiesCrusadesChivalry (Chivalry)
Este artigo procura refletir sobre a relação entre a aristocracia medieval portuguesa e a cavalaria, na sua dimensão plural de categoria social e de ideologia que viria a caraterizar os grupos dominantes na hierarquia social medieva.... more
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      Medieval StudiesMedieval Iberian HistoryChivalry (Chivalry)Medieval Nobility
Nel 1776 la Lingua d’Italia dell’Ordine di Malta avvia un’inchiesta per chiarire le caratteristiche delle nobiltà esistenti nei sette priorati italiani con lo scopo di predisporre un progetto di riforma delle prove nobiliari richieste... more
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      Chivalry (Chivalry)HeraldryNobilityAristocracy
En el antiguo imperio japonés surgió una nobleza de cuño feudal muy similar a la europea, pese a la distancia entre ambos y la escasa comunicación que existió entre ambos paises separados por más de once mil kilometros. Loss Samurais... more
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      Japanese HistoryChivalry (Chivalry)HeraldryNobility
From 4 to 7 May 1439 a massive tournament (235 participants) was organized at the Grote Markt in Brussels, in which the Burgundian duke Philip the Good himself participated. This tournament was maybe one of the last in the massive (urban)... more
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      Military HistoryLate Middle AgesMedieval HistoryEarly Modern History
Sažetak: “Vitez, Smrt i Đavo” predstavlja prvi od tri Direrova bakroreza koji su nastali u kratkom vremenskom periodu (1513-1514), a kojima su kritičari nadenuli zbirni naziv “Meisterstiche” (“remek dela grafike”). Baveći se odnosom... more
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      ChristianityIconographyChivalry (Chivalry)Modernity
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A chapter in La matière arthurienne tardive en Europe, 1270-1530. Late Arthurian Tradition in Europe, ed. Christine Ferlampin-Acher, Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2020, 733-741.
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      Medieval LiteratureMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesArthurian Studies
MA Dissertation (2020) Chivalry in the Middle Ages has often been defined as ‘the religious and moral system of behavior that the perfect knight was expected to follow’.1 However, singular definitions of chivalry should be disregarded... more
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      Gender StudiesMedieval LiteratureMasculinity StudiesChivalry (Chivalry)
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      HistoryHigh Middle AgesMedieval HistoryViolence
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      HistoryEuropean HistoryMilitary HistoryEuropean Studies
Resumo: A formação da cultura cavaleiresca entre os séculos XI e XIV criou uma galeria de tipos exemplares conhecida como os Nove Bravos. Neste artigo destacamos a importância de um deles, Judas Macabeu, para o desenvolvimento da... more
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      Medieval StudiesCrusadesChivalry (Chivalry)History of Crusades
I documenti che costituiscono il processo nobiliare per l'ammissione all'Ordine di Santiago ci permettono di completare il profilo biografico del conte Louis Canossa (1629-1687) personaggio di primaria importanza sulla scena politica... more
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      Renaissance StudiesChivalry (Chivalry)NobilityHoly Roman Empire (History)
Dissertation excerpt (introduction, 2011) discussing the historiography of the fighting treatises, the importance of cultural context, and the argument that medieval fighting was sometimes organized into recognizable, systematic martial... more
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      HistoryMilitary HistoryCultural HistoryGerman Studies
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      English LiteratureChivalry (Chivalry)Chivalry (Medieval Studies)English language and literature
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      Sports HistoryChivalry (Chivalry)Chivalry (Medieval Studies)HIstory of Sport
A fines del siglo XIV y principios del XV las divisas de la dinastía Trastámara adquirieron un particular protagonismo en el proceso de consolidación política de la monarquía castellana. Este artículo explora los emblemas personales que... more
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      ReligionReligion and PoliticsChivalry (Chivalry)Late Medieval Religion, Monasticism and Devotion