The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood Volume III

Reviewing the first volume in this series Christopher Allmand writing in English Historical Review said: `Once again a volume of papers published by the Boydell Press has made a useful interdisciplinary contribution to an important and difficult subject. Historians may read this book with profit.' But not only historians for the contributions to these volumes are wide-ranging and cover all aspects of culture in the middle ages with a strong emphasis on continental literature. The papers in this new volume are: Malcolm BarberCatharism and the Occitan NobilityJim BradburyGeoffrey V of Anjou Count and KnightJeremy CattoSir William Beauchamp: Between Chivalry and LollardyRichard EalesNorman Castles in EnglandDafydd EvansThe Nobility of Knight and FalconW.H. JacksonKnighthood and the Hohenstaufen Imperial Court under Frederick BarbarossaEmma MasonThe Hero's Invincible Weapon: An Aspect of Angevin PropagandaIan PeirceThe Development of the Medieval SwordZ.P. ZaddyThe Courtly Ethic in Chrétien de TroyesCHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL and RUTH HARVEY studied under the late R. Allen Brown and Christopher Harper-Bill was the principal editor of Studies in Medieval History: Essays Presented to R. Allen Brown published by Boydell & Brewer in 1989. He currently lectures in history at St Mary's College Strawberry Hill.