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Knight and samurai : actions and images of elite warriors in Europe and East Asia / edited by Rosemarie Deist in collaboration with Harald Kleinschmidt.

Title
Knight and samurai : actions and images of elite warriors in Europe and East Asia / edited by Rosemarie Deist in collaboration with Harald Kleinschmidt.
Publication
Göppingen : Kümmerle, 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Deist, Rosemarie.
  • Kleinschmidt, Harald, 1949-
Description
vi, 202 p. : some ill.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik ; Nr. 707
Uniform Title
Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik ; Nr. 707.
Subject
  • Knights and knighthood in literature > Congresses
  • Knights and knighthood > Congresses
  • Literature, Medieval > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Oriental literature > History and criticism > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Contributions from participants at a conference held at the University of San Francisco, April 2000.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Beyond valor and bloodshed: the arts of war as a path to serenity / Karl F. Friday -- Table and bed: on the refinement of culture at the medieval court / Horst Wenzel -- Of swords and plowshares: dislocation and transformation sin Chrétien's Grail story / Matilda T. Bruckner -- The martial arts and the loss of decorum in some medieval French narratives: Chrétien's Perceval, The Prose Lancelot, and Jehan de Saintré / Douglas Kelly -- Heroes and superheroes: the heroic in the Bourgeois Age / Alfred Ebenbauer -- From sword to dress: the ideal knight in late medieval French romance / Michelle Szkilnik -- Santō Kyōden's Chōshin suikoden: representations of violence and honor in Tokugawa fiction / Stephen J. Roddy -- Husbands and wives in Japanese feudalism / Reinhard Zöllner -- Fighting for lad - fighting for power: war aim making in Renaissance Europe / Harald Kleinschmidt -- Li Shimin and the representation of military leadership in medieval China / David A. Graff -- Military evolution or revolution?: state formation and the early modern samurai / Shinko Taniguchi.
ISBN
3874529584 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2003504685
OCLC
53376686
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library