Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance Book

Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development of court culture and its various manifestations from the latter years of the Holy Roman Empire (ca. A.D. 1000) to the Italian Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Leading medievalist and Renaissance scholar Aldo Scaglione offers a sweeping sociological view of three geographic areas that reveals a surprising continuity of courtly forms and motifs: German romances; the lyrical and narrative literature of northern and southern France; Italy's chivalric poetry. Scaglione discusses a broad number of texts, from early Norman and Flemish baronial chronicles to the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, the troubadours and Minnesingers. He delves into the Niebelungenlied, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and an array of treatises on conduct down to Castiglione and his successors.All these works and Scaglione's superior scholarship attest to the enduring power over minds and hearts of a mentality that issued from a small minority of people--the courtiers and knights--in central positions of leadership and power. Knights at Court is for all scholars and students interested in "the civilizing process."Read More

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  • 0520072707
  • 9780520072701
  • Aldo Scaglione
  • 15 January 1992
  • University of California Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 440
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