Chivalry in the Renaissance
Published on 27. September 1990
Book
Hardback
310 pages
978-0-85115-264-6 (ISBN)
Description
Changes in chivalric institutions, ideas and ideals between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, and studies of Renaissance attitudes towards such chivalric matters.
The transmutation of the medieval knight into Renaissance courtier or gentleman is one of the central problems for the student of chivalry in the Renaissance. The knight as a fighter and protector is replaced by a figure whose activities are mainly restricted to court spectacles and masques, it is in perceiving the shift of emphasis in the intervening centuries that the challenge to students of chivalry lies. These fourteen essays, originating from a conference arranged by the Society for Renaissance Studies in 1988, examine changes in chivalric institutions, ideas and ideals between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the ways in which the Renaissance regarded such chivalric matters.
The transmutation of the medieval knight into Renaissance courtier or gentleman is one of the central problems for the student of chivalry in the Renaissance. The knight as a fighter and protector is replaced by a figure whose activities are mainly restricted to court spectacles and masques, it is in perceiving the shift of emphasis in the intervening centuries that the challenge to students of chivalry lies. These fourteen essays, originating from a conference arranged by the Society for Renaissance Studies in 1988, examine changes in chivalric institutions, ideas and ideals between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the ways in which the Renaissance regarded such chivalric matters.
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[This] short notice ...cannot do justice to the fine points and the originality of the contributions brought together in this stimulating collection. Together they make a major contribution to the history of `mentality' in the early modern period. The themes of the thirteen contributions are the changes in chivalric institutions and culture between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries-an interesting and thought-provoking collection. * HER *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Woodbridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
49 s/w Abbildungen
49 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85115-264-6 (9780851152646)
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Content
How to kill a man at your ease - fencing books and the duelling ethic, Sydney Angelo; Antonio Cornazzano's "De l'integrita de la militare arte", Diego Zancani; chivalry and magnificence in the golden age of the Italian Renaissance, Cecil H.Clough; the genesis and significance of the 15th-century Italian "Impresa", Kristen Lipincott; tournaments and the German chivalric "renovatio" - tournament discipline and the myth of origins, William H.Jackson; from a death to a view - Louis Robessart, John Huizinga, and the political significance of chivalry, David Morgan; chivalry and the politics of the early Tudor court, Steven Gunn; "Inglorious Glory" - 1513 and the humanist attack on chivalry, Dominic Baker-Smith; claims to status through visual codes - heraldry on post-Reformation funeral monuments, Nigel Llewellyn; chivalry in Sidney's "Arcadia", Victor Skretkowicz; "Nostre Historie Renouvelee", the reception of the romances of chivalry in Renaissance France, Richard Cooper; the Quixotic knight, Colin P.Thompson; chivalry in the New World, Peter Burke.