Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny Text, Context, and Translation

Name: Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny Text, Context, and Translation
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ISBN: 9780812215793

ISBN-10: 0812215796

ISBN-13: 9780812215793

Edition: 1997

Authors: Richard W. Kaeuper, Elspeth Kennedy, Ruth Mazo Karras

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The Book of Chivalry is the most pragmatic of all surviving chivalric manuals. Written at the height of the Hundred Years War, it includes the essential commonplaces of knighthood in the mid-fourteenth century and gives a close-up view of what one knight in particular absorbed of the medieval world of ideas around him, what he rejected or ignored, and what he added from his experience in camp, court, and campaign. Geoffroi de Charny was one of the quintessential figures of his age, with honors and praise bestowed upon him from both sides of the English Channel. He prepared the Book of Chivalry as a guide for members of the Company of the Star, a new but short-lived order of knights created…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 11/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Geoffroi De Charny and His Book


Charny's Career


Charny's Books and Ideals


The Practicality of Charny's Book


Piety and Lay Independence


Charny and Chivalric Reform


The Book of Chivalry


Editorial Introduction


Translation


Notes to the Text and Translation


Bibliography


Index