Автор: Maurice Keen Название: Chivalry Издательство: Yale University Press Год: 1984 Формат: PDF Страниц: 364 Язык: English Размер: 79 MB
Chivalry—with its pageants, heraldry, and knights in shining armor—was 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.