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Chivalry by Maurice Keen

In this book the author examines the significance of chivalry as a secular social ideal in the period from c. 1100 to c. 1500, and finds that historians have exaggerated both chivalry's early Christian dedication and its later secular decadence, and that it may be better described as an ethos in which martial, aristocratic and Christian elements were fused together. Keen argues that the attention lavished on externals in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and exemplified in the pageantry of tournaments and the ceremonials of such famous secular orders of chivalry as the Garter and the Golden Fleece, was not just empty show: it was rather an attempt to give expression, in a vivid and evocative manner, to the values and virtues of chivalry.

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• Folio Society First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2010
• Brown Cloth Hardback, 400 pp
• Colour and black & white plates
• Size 255 x 180mm, 1.6kg

Condition: Brand New – Still In Original Cellophane Wrap

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