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Provides a facing-page translation of the "Book of Chivalry". This book describes the prowess and piety of knights, their capacity to express themselves, their common assumptions, and their views on masculine virtue, women, and love.

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The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny

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    A Paperback / softback by Richard W. Kaeuper, Elspeth Kennedy

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: 01/11/1996
      ISBN13: 9780812215793, 978-0812215793
      ISBN10: 0812215796
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      Book Synopsis
      Provides a facing-page translation of the "Book of Chivalry". This book describes the prowess and piety of knights, their capacity to express themselves, their common assumptions, and their views on masculine virtue, women, and love.

      Trade Review
      "This book is a pleasure: its matter is essential. . . . The Livre de chevalerie will now assume its rightful, central place in studies of fourteenth-century history and literature and in the history of chivalry." * Speculum *

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