Chivalry
by Maurice Keen /
2013 / English / PDF
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Chivalrywith its pageants, heraldry, and knights in shining armorwas a social ideal that had a profound influence on the history of early modern Europe. In this eloquent and richly detailed book, a leading medieval historian discusses the complex reality of chivalry: its secular foundations, the effects of the Crusades, the literature of knighthood, and its ethos of the social and moral obligations of nobility.
