The Study of Chivalry

Howell Chickering is a Professor Emeritus at Amherst College, specializing in Medieval English Poetry. Thomas H. Seiler is a Professor Emeritus at Western Michigan University, specializing in Medieval British literature.

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

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

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