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The Rusted hauberk : feudal ideals of order and their decline

Title
The Rusted hauberk : feudal ideals of order and their decline / edited by Liam O. Purdon and Cindy L. Vitto.
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Purdon, Liam O.
  • Vitto, Cindy L.
Description
xxi, 338 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • To 1500
  • Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
  • Order (Philosophy) in literature
  • Feudalism in literature
  • Literature and society > History > To 1500
  • Literature and society
  • Literature, Medieval
  • Feudalismus
  • Wertwandel
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Literatur
  • Geschichte
  • Feudalismus Motiv
  • Feodalisme
  • Letterkunde
  • Middeleeuwen
  • Geschichte 1300-1400
  • Geschichte 1200-1400
  • England
  • Mittelenglisch
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Feudal relations and reason in Cleanness / Cindy L. Vitto -- Imagining feudalism in Piers Plowman : attempts to restore an order / Daniel F. Pigg -- Potency and power : Chaucer's aristocrats and their linguistic superiority / Jean E. Jost -- Chivalry and feudal obligation in Barbour's Bruce / Liam O. Purdon and Julian N. Wasserman -- As good as her word : women's language in The knight of the Tour d'Landry / Cynthia Ho -- Men's theory and women's reality : rape prosecutions in the English Royal Courts of Justice, 1194-1222 / Patricia Orr -- Par amur et par feid : keeping faith and the varieties of feudalism in La chanson de Roland / William T. Cotton -- When feudal ideas failed : conflicts between lords and vassals in the Low Countries, 1127-1296 / Karen S. Nicholas -- Feudal chivalry in popular medieval battle poems / John W. Schwetman.
  • (cont) The Roman de Jaufre and the illusions of romance / Ross G. Arthur -- Chaucer subjectivizes the oath : depicting the fall from feudalism into individualism in the Canterbury tales / Lois Roney -- John Rastell and the Norman Conquest : Tudor theories about the feudal age / Amos Lee Laine.
ISBN
  • 0813012813
  • 9780813012810
  • 0813012821
  • 9780813012827
LCCN
93045369
OCLC
  • ocm29600662
  • 29600662
  • SCSB-2023020
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library