The Chivalric Turn: Conduct and Hegemony in Europe Before 1300

by David Crouch

Book Overview

The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of the writers of the Enlightenment, viewing superior conduct as 'knightly' behaviour, and categorising it as chivalry.

Using, for the first time, the full range of the considerable twelfth- and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198830343
• ISBN13: 9780198830344
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"