Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe

ISBN: 9780199244584 出版年：2011 页码：351 Kaeuper, Richard Oxford University Press

This original and authoritative text reveals how chivalry was part of the problem of violence in medieval Europe, not merely it's solution. If one ideal was to internalize restraint in knights, chivalry also worshipped hands-on violence, as a close reading of chivalric literature shows. In a developing society, chivalric ideals and practices were both praised and feared by those who sought its reform.