The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood, Volume III: Papers from the Fourth Strawberry Hill Conference, 1988 Hardcover - 1990

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Reviewing the first volume in this series, Christopher Allmand, writing in English Historical Review, said: Once again, a volume of papers published by the Boydell Press has made a useful interdisciplinary contribution to an important and difficult subject. Historians may read this book with profit.' But not only historians, for the contributions to these volumes are wide-ranging, and cover all aspects of culture in the middle ages, with a strong emphasis on continental literature. The papers in this new volume are: Malcolm BarberCatharism and the Occitan NobilityJim BradburyGeoffrey V of Anjou, Count and KnightJeremy CattoSir William Beauchamp: Between Chivalry and LollardyRichard EalesNorman Castles in EnglandDafydd EvansThe Nobility of Knight and FalconW.H. JacksonKnighthood and the Hohenstaufen Imperial Court under Frederick BarbarossaEmma MasonThe Hero's Invincible Weapon: An Aspect of Angevin PropagandaIan PeirceThe Development of the Medieval SwordZ.P. ZaddyThe Courtly Ethic in Chrtien de TroyesCHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL and RUTH HARVEY studied under the late R. Allen Brown, and Christopher Harper-Bill was the principal editor of Studies in Medieval History: Essays Presented to R. Allen Brown published by Boydell & Brewer in 1989. He currently lectures in history at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill.