Research Catalog

Title

Chivalry and the medieval past / edited by Katie Stevenson and Barbara Gribling.

Publication

Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. : Boydell Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Stevenson, Katie
• Gribling, Barbara

Description

x, 225 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

One of the most difficult and complex ethical and cultural codes to define, chivalry has proved a flexible, ever-changing phenomenon, constantly adapted in the hands of medieval knights, Renaissance princes, early modern antiquarians, Enlightenment scholars, modern civic authorities, authors, historians and re-enactors. This book explores the rich variations in how the Middle Ages were conceptualised and historicised to illuminate the plurality of uses of the past. Using chivalry as a lens through which to examine concepts and uses of the medieval, it provides a critical assessment of the ways in which medieval chivalry became a shorthand to express contemporary ideals, powerfully demonstrating the ways in which history could be appropriated. The chapters combine attention to documentary evidence with what material culture can tell us, in particular using the built environment and the landscape as sources to understand how the medieval past was renegotiated. With contributions spanning diverse geographic regions and periods, it redraws current chronological boundaries by considering medievalism from the late Middle Ages to the present.

Series Statement

Medievalism ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Medievalism (Series) ; v. 7.

Subject

• Chivalry > Historiography
• Medievalism

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

'An institution quite misunderstood': chivalry and sentimentalism in the late Scottish enlightenment / David Allan -- Creating a 'medieval past' for the Swedish orders of knighthood / Antti Matikkala -- 'Hung round with the helments, breast-plates, and swords of our ancestors': allusions to chivalry in eighteenth-century gothicism / Peter N. Lindfield -- Knights on the town? Commercial and civic chivalry in Victorian Manchester / Rosemary Mitchell -- 'The dark side of chivalry': victory, violence and the Victorians / Barbara Gribling -- Daze and knights: anachronism, duelling and the chivalric ethic in nineteenth-century Italy / Steven C. Hughes -- The German crusade: the battles of Tannenberg, 1310 and 1914 / Stefan Geobel -- 'Hark ye back to the age of valour': re-enacting chivalry from the Eglinton Tournament to Kill Streak / Paul Pickering.

ISBN

• 9781843839231
• 1843839237

OCLC

949770821

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library