The Study of Chivalry

Resources and Approaches

Edited by Howell Chickering Edited by Thomas H. Seiler

Book cover: The Study of Chivalry

Extent: 710 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: TEAMS Varia

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 1989)

ISBN: 9780918720948

Price: $19.95

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(November 1989)

ISBN: 9780918720931

6.14 x 9.21 inches

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(November 1989)

ISBN: 9781580445054

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In a series of essays readers will find information about modern scholarship on the subject of chivalry and various suggestions for ways to teach some familiar and unfamiliar chivalric materials. Short bibliographies are provided for teachers’ further use.

Acknowledgements Introduction, by Howell ChickeringPart I: The Modern Study of Chivalry Modern Views of Medieval Chivalry, 1884-1984, by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams The Criticism of Chivalric Epic and Romance, by Robert W. Hanning Reaching Chivalry: From Footnote to Foreground, by Elizabeth B. Keiser and Bonnie WheelerPart II: Historical and Visual Approaches Religious Writers and Church Councils on Chivalry, by David Carlson Caballus et Caballarius in Medieval Warfare, by Bernard S. Bachrach The Tournament: An Historical Sketch, by Helmut Nickel The Technology of Chivalry in Reality and Romance, by Rosemary Ascherl Medieval Seals and the Structure of Chivalri Society, by Brigitte Bedos Rezak Early Medieval Images of the Horseman Re-Viewed, by Linda SeidelPart III: Teaching Early Chivalric Literature Chevalier in Twelfth-Century French and Occitan Vernacular Literature, by Margaret Switten The Recreantise Episode in Chretien's Erec et Enide, by Nancy Bradley-Cromey Chivalric Education in Wolfram's Parzival and Gottfried's Tristan, by Jill P. McDonald Using Translation, by Dennis M. KratzPart IV: Teaching Later Chivalric Literature Christine de Pizan on Chivalry, by Charity Cannon Ward Malory's Morte Darthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure, by Dhira B. Mahoney Teaching the Pas d'Armes, by Anthony Annunziata Teaching the Motifs of Chivalric Biography, by William T. Cotton The Vows of the Pheasant and Late Chivalric Ritual, by Gail Orgelfinger Caxton's Chivalric Publications of 1480-85, by Jennifer R. Goodman The Unknightly Knight: Teaching Satires on Chivalry, by Robert L. Kindrick Index, Acknowledgements
Introduction, by Howell Chickering

Part I: The Modern Study of Chivalry
Modern Views of Medieval Chivalry, 1884–1984 by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams
The Criticism of Chivalric Epic and Romance by Robert W. Hanning
Teaching Chivalry: From Footnote to Foreground by Elizabeth B. Keiser and Bonnie Wheeler

Part II: Historical and Visual Approaches
Religious Writers and Church Councils on Chivalry by David Carlson
Caballus et Caballarius in Medieval Warfare by Bernard S. Bachrach
The Tournament: An Historical Sketch by Helmut Nickel
The Technology of Chivalry in Reality and Romance by Rosemary Ascherl
Medieval Seals and the Structure of Chivalri Society by Brigitte Bedos Rezak
Early Medieval Images of the Horseman Re-Viewed by Linda Seidel

Part III: Teaching Early Chivalric Literature
Chevalier in Twelfth-Century French and Occitan Vernacular Literature by Margaret Switten
The “Recréantise” Episode in Chrétien’s Erec et Enide by Nancy Bradley-Cromey
Chivalric Education in Wolfram’s Parzival and Gottfried’s Tristan by Jill P. McDonald
Using Translation by Dennis M. Kratz

Part IV: Teaching Later Chivalric Literature
Christine de Pizan on Chivalry by Charity Cannon Ward
Malory’s Morte Darthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure by Dhira B. Mahoney
Teaching the Pas d’Armes by Anthony Annunziata
Teaching the Motifs of Chivalric Biography by William T. Cotton
The Vows of the Pheasant and Late Chivalric Ritual by Gail Orgelfinger
Caxton’s Chivalric Publications of 1480–85 by Jennifer R. Goodman
The “Unknightly Knight”: Teaching Satires on Chivalry by Robert L. Kindrick
Index

  • Edited by Howell Chickering
  • Edited by Thomas H. Seiler