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

Reaching 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 Chivalric 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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