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In a series of essays readers will find information about modern scholarship on the subject of chivalry and various suggestions for ways to teach some familiar and unfamiliar chivalric materials. Short bibliographies are provided for teachers' further use.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction, by Howell Chickering

Part 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
Index

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      Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
      Publication Date: 01/11/1989
      ISBN13: 9780918720931, 978-0918720931
      ISBN10: 0918720931
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In a series of essays readers will find information about modern scholarship on the subject of chivalry and various suggestions for ways to teach some familiar and unfamiliar chivalric materials. Short bibliographies are provided for teachers' further use.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements
      Introduction, by Howell Chickering

      Part 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
      Index

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