The Fate of the Warrior’s Soul: Crusading, Chivalry, and the Formation of English Knighthood
When and how did knights stop thinking they were going to hell?
A Chivalrous Man is Not a Gentleman: A Look at Chivalry in the Age of Chaucer
The concept of knighthood began as a military strategy used to supply men to fight kings’ wars, but it gradually developed into the glamorized ideal of chivalry and became associated with virtuous behavior expected during times of both war and peace.
Vlad Dracula and Coeval Armatura
The famous/infamous European hero, crusader and voivod, Vlad “Tepes” Dracula III (1431-1476), was actually (for better or for worse) one of knightly peers of European Chivalry.
The Death of the Knight: Changes in Military Weaponry during the Tudor Period
The Death of the Knight: Changes in Military Weaponry during the Tudor Period By David Schwope Academic Forum, Vol. 21 (2003-04) Abstract: The…
The use of trial by battle in the work of Sir Thomas Malory
The use of trial by battle in the work of Sir Thomas Malory Enyon, Nadine Ruth(Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) M.A. Thesis, English, University of Saskatchewan (1974)…
Riding the Horse, Writing the Cultural Myth: The European Knight and the American Cowboy as Equestrian Heroes
Riding the Horse, Writing the Cultural Myth: The European Knight and the American Cowboy as Equestrian Heroes By Metin Boşnak and Cem Ceyhan…
Not Quite One of the Guys: Pantysyllya as Virgin Warrior in Lydgate’s Troy Book
Not Quite One of the Guys: Pantysyllya as Virgin Warrior in Lydgate’s Troy Book Hennequinn, M. Wendy Medieval Feminist Forum 34, no. 1…
Teaching Knighthood and the Late Medieval Battlefield using the Knights of The Messenger
Teaching Knighthood and the Late Medieval Battlefield using the Knights of The Messenger By Matthieu Chan Tsin The Once and Future Classroom, Vol.7:1…
The Late Twelfth-Century Knightly Ethic in North-Western Europe in Life and in Literature
The Late Twelfth-Century Knightly Ethic in North-Western Europe in Life and in Literature By Ayşegül Keskin Master’s Thesis, Bilkent University, 2008 Abstract: By…
‘Clash of Civilizations’, Crusades, Knights and Ottomans: an Analysis of Christian-Muslim Interaction in the Mediterranean
‘Clash of Civilizations’, Crusades, Knights and Ottomans: an Analysis of Christian-Muslim Interaction in the Mediterranean Buttigieg,Emanuel (University of Malta) Religion and power in…
Sir Launfal: A Portrait of a Knight in Fourteenth Century England
Sir Launfal may follow the footsteps of its ancestor, but probably with a different intent.
Conflict and Conscience: Ideological War and the Albigensian Crusade
This thesis is a case study on ethics within war. The thirteenth century Albigensian Crusade was a war against a heretical religious ideology known as Catharism whose tenets threatened the social order of Europe.
Pagans by Comparisons: Medieval Christian and Muslim Constructions of the Pagan “Other”
Pagans by Comparisons: Medieval Christian and Muslim Constructions of the Pagan “Other” Busalacchi, Philip Perspectives: A Journal of Historical Inquiry, Vol.37 (2010) Introduction: During…
The Debate on the Fourth Crusade
The Debate on the Fourth Crusade Harris, Jonathan History Compass, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2004) Abstract This article examines attempts over the past…
RELIGION, WARRIOR ELITES, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
RELIGION, WARRIOR ELITES, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS Hull, Brooks B. and Bold, Frederick Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture 2011 Annual Meeting Abstract In…
Bounds of Imagination:Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival
Bounds of Imagination:Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival Hasty, Will The Grail, the Quest and the World of Arthur, ed.…