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Book SynopsisIn 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 ContentsAcknowledgements
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
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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