Oxford University Press, 1985. — 308 p. This is a thorough and original study of German knighthood as a class in its medieval heyday. Arnold draws on a rich array of descriptive detail from the lives of individual knights, their families, and various groups to examine knightly customs and practices, the impact of knighthood in the political world of the German Empire, and the...
Oxford University Press, 1985. — 308 p. This is a thorough and original study of German knighthood as a class in its medieval heyday. Arnold draws on a rich array of descriptive detail from the lives of individual knights, their families, and various groups to examine knightly customs and practices, the impact of knighthood in the political world of the German Empire, and the...
Klett-Cotta, 2015. — 478 s. Thomas Asbridge zeichnet ein prächtiges Porträt des besten aller Ritter: Guillaume le Maréchal war der eigentliche Lancelot seiner Zeit, der Inbegriff des Ritters. Sein spektakuläres Leben zeugt von Glanz und Größe. In mitreißenden Szenen erzählt Thomas Asbridge von der Geburt der Ritterklasse, der Kultur und Lebensart der ritterlichen Welt. Wie kein...
Routledge, 1994. — 432 p. Military Orders first became central to European life in the 1130s and, despite the suppression of the Templars in 1312, remained so until Napoleon seized Malta from the Hospitallers in 1798. Even then, the spirit had not died, for hospitaller organisations based upon the original foundations were revived in the nineteenth century and many continue to...
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1989. — 240 p. This is the first serious study of medieval tournaments throughout Europe. The romantic image of the tournament, derived largely from the literature of the middle ages, has perhaps been the reason why historians have tended to regard them as frivolous occasions, but recent research has encouraged a different view. Richard Barber and...
Routledge, 2006. — 336 p. Including previously unpublished and little known material, this cutting-edge book presents a detailed discussion of the archaeological evidence of the five military orders in the Latin East: the Hospitallers the Templars the Teutonic Knights the Leper Knights of St. Lazarus the Knights of St. Thomas. Discussing in detail the distinctive architecture...
Firefly Books, 2010. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-1554074808. The word "knight" conjures up images of gallant men in gleaming armor astride noble steeds, searching for foes to fight and fair maidens to rescue. In Knights the reality of knighthood is detailed, warts and all. This handsome reference tells the true story of these mounted warriors, who evolved from simple soldiers on...
New York: Ams Press, 1982. — 268 p. This book to definitively explain the concept of knighthood in the Middle Ages. It's a translation of a German work, for one thing, so it's really more specifically about the concept of knighthood in the Germanic world in the Middle Ages, arguing from the meaning of various technical terms in early Germanic dialects. And from what I can tell,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 761 p. From their humble beginnings in Jerusalem as a late eleventh-century hospital and an early twelfth-century pilgrim escort, Hospitallers and Templars evolved into international military religious orders, engaged in numerous charitable, economic, and military pursuits. At the heart of each of these communities, and in many ways a mirror...
Routledge, 2013. — 302 p. At the heart of this volume is a concern with exploring levels of interaction between two particular objects of study, islands on the one hand, and military orders on the other. According to Fernand Braudel, islands are, ’often brutally’, caught ’between the two opposite poles of archaism and innovation.’ What happened when these particular...
Fordham University Press, 2015. — 280 p. “Warrior monks” - the misnomer for the Iberian military orders that emerged on the frontiers of Europe in the twelfth century - have long fascinated general readers and professional historians alike. Proposing “ecclesiastical knights” as a more accurate name and conceptual model - warriors animated by ideals and spiritual currents...
Boydell Press, 2009. — 408 p. New essays on chivalry, warfare, and treason and politics in the middle ages. Chivalric culture, soldiers and soldiering, and treason, politics and the court form the main themes of this volume - as is appropriate in a book which honours the distinguished medievalist Maurice Keen. The essays, all by eminent scholars in the field, cover such topics...
D.S.Brewer, 2007. — 207 p. — (Gallica, 6). The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages [10th-12th centuries] among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally centered on the paired practices of gift giving and violent taking, inextricably linked elements of the same basic symbolic economy. These performative practices cannot be understood without reference...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 283 p. Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that...
Crescent Books, 1991. — 192 p. The authors follow the evolution of the European knight from his misty origins in the eighth century to the pomp and glory of the sixteenth. Through the use of numerous photographs of surviving armor, illuminated manuscripts, statues, tapestries, and other physical evidence of the past, they provide the reader with a clear and fairly accurate...
Zurich,1987. - 317 p. Religoses Umfeld. Realitatsgehalt. Gangige Gebardentypen. Alctivitat und Inaktivitat. Wortgeschichtliche Begriffserklarung. Entwicklung urtd Lebensformen des Rittertums. Die Entwicklung des Rittertums in verschie-. denen Herrschaftsbereichen. Das Ideal des "miles christianus". Rittergrabfiguren in Rustung. Arme seitlich des Korpers. Hand auf dem Korper....
Berlin, 2002. - 255 p. Das Rittertum hat die Kultur und Lebensart des europäischen Kontinents nachhaltig geprägt; Ritter und die ritterliche Welt beschäftigen unsere Fantasie bis heute - in Büchern, Spielen, Filmen. Der Ritter erscheint als Identifikationsfigur und Verkörperung einer idealen Lebensform. Was sind die Ursprünge dieses Phänomens? Was machte die ritterliche Welt...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. — 293 p. — (New Studies in Medieval History). It is over eighty years since the last important comprehensive work on the military orders, including the Templars, was published. Yet the present volume seeks to do more than just summarise recent research on individual sources; based on a wide range of primary sources, it also sets out to answer questions...
BL Publishing, 2004. — 68 p. — (Warhammer Historical). — ISBN: 184154504X. This book contains army lists for use with Warhammer Ancient Battles. The lists will enable players to recreate battles for some of the greatest conflicts of the Age including the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses, the Burgundian Wars, the Ottoman Expansion and more!
Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. — 71 p. Arms and armor have assumed once more the important position in the field of art which was theirs for so many centunes. Durmg the three hundred years between 1400 and 1700, the armorer was recognized as an artist, one who wrought into beauty a very difficult material, and whose work had, aside from its aesthetic importance,...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 240 p. From a life-long student of the medieval long sword and medieval history comes a comprehensive overview of the Age of the Knights. Jones shows that behind the popular image of the knight in shining armor lies a world that is both more complex and more fascinating. Were knights glory-seeking, bloodthirsty thugs that lay ravage to the Holy Land...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 343 p. The medieval code of chivalry demanded that warrior elites demonstrate fierce courage in battle, display prowess with weaponry, and avenge any strike against their honor. They were also required to be devout Christians. How, then, could knights pledge fealty to the Prince of Peace, who enjoined the faithful to turn the other...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. - 445 p. Emerging in the medieval period, chivalry embodied ideals that elite warriors cherished and practices that formed their profession. In this major new overview, Richard Kaeuper examines how chivalry made sense of violence and war, making it tolerable for elite fighters rather than non-knightly or sub-knightly populations. He...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. - 303 p. Chivalry — with its pageants, heraldry, and knights in shining armor — was a social ideal that had a profound influence on the history of early modern Europe. In this eloquent and richly detailed book, a leading medieval historian discusses the complex reality of chivalry: its secular foundations, the effects of the Crusades, the...
Cleveland: Department of Education and Public Programs, 2018. — 29 p. The purpose of this Teacher Preview packet is to prepare you for a visit from the Art To Go program of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The materials included inside should help you become familiar with the Art To Go program and with the topic of the presentation you have requested, arms and armor from the...
Routledge, 2014. — 216 p. This new addition to the popular Seminar Studies series looks at the origins, development and organisation of the Military Orders during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, showing how they functioned as a form of religious life and concentrating on their role in the Crusades and in the government and defence of the Christian kingdoms in the Holy...
London, U.K.: Thames & Hudson, 2013. — 208 p.; 113 ills., 22 in colour. The knight is the supreme warrior of the Middle Ages. Fully armored and mounted on a magnificent charger, he seems invincible. Honor and glory await him as, guided by the chivalric code, he fights with lance and sword. But as any warrior will tell you, the path to chivalry is not an easy ride. This...
Casemate Publishers, 2017. — 160 p. Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularized in medieval European literature. Knights were expected to fight bravely and honorably and be loyal to their lord until death if necessary. Later chivalry came to encompass activities such as tournaments and hunting, and...
Routledge, 2016. — 250 p. Forty papers link the study of the military orders’ cultural life and output with their involvement in political and social conflicts during the medieval and early modern period. Divided into two volumes, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe respectively, the collection brings together the most up-to-date research by experts from fifteen...
Routledge, 2016. — 262 p. Forty papers link the study of the military orders’ cultural life and output with their involvement in political and social conflicts during the medieval and early modern period. Divided into two volumes, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe respectively, the collection brings together the most up-to-date research by experts from fifteen...
HarperCollins , 2012. — 336 p. Join TV’s Dan Snow as the fully illustrated ‘Battle Castles’ brings to thrilling life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and the clashes that turned empires to dust and mortals into legends. Castles and their ruins still dominate the landscape and are a constant reminder to us of a time when violence, or the threat of it, was the norm. Dan...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. — 376 p. The essays in this volume explore the extent to which the chivalric ethos and military professionalism were incompatible, as well as their relative significance for developments in the art of war, and the rise of the state. Essays explore the armies and societies of late-medieval and early-modern France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany,...
Reprint edition — Frontline Books, 2018. — 272 p. The Art of Renaissance Warfare tells the story of the knight during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries – from the great victories of Edward III and the Black Prince to the fall of Richard III on Bosworth Field. During this period, new technology on the battlefield posed deadly challenges for the mounted warrior; but they also...
Reprint edition — Frontline Books, 2018. — 272 p. The Art of Renaissance Warfare tells the story of the knight during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries – from the great victories of Edward III and the Black Prince to the fall of Richard III on Bosworth Field. During this period, new technology on the battlefield posed deadly challenges for the mounted warrior; but they also...
Brockhampton Press, 1998. — 192 p. Chronicles the development, tactics, weaponry, armor, and campaigns of medieval warfare and examines the influence of religion and chivalry and the military action of knights. Fearless in battle, gracious in victory, knights lived their lives on a heroic scale, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Vividly retold with superb color and...
London, Cassell Co., 2001. — 257 p. A best-selling expert on medieval warfare has produced a hugely successful book--over 100,000 copies sold--that returns by popular demand as the premier reference on knighthood. The riveting chronicle trains its focus on the golden years of the knight during the 14th and 15th centuries. The life of a knight starts with his earliest...
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