Medieval Knighthood

These eight papers from the Strawberry Hill Conference cover a wide area, but common themes emerge. One group of essays deals with the embellishments of lordship, both architectural and heraldic, studying residences and also developments in armour. A second group concerns ideals which motivated the aristocracy of western Europe, from the late 10th to the 15th centuries: romances, the Peace movement of Aquitaine, holy war, and loyalty. Concentration on rationalism and free will in the writings of the cultural circle which revolved around Sir John Fastolf is identified as an important element in the development of the English Renaissance.Dr CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL is Principal Lecturer in History, St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill; Dr RUTH HARVEY is lecturer in French, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.Contributors: ADRIAN AILES, JEFFREY ASHCROFT, CHARLES COULSON, JONATHAN HUGHES, JANE MARTINDALE, PETER NOBLE, MATTHEW STRICKLAND, ANN WILLIAMS

Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
The Knight, Heraldry and Armour: the Role of Recognition and the Origins of Heraldry	p. 1
'si Waren Aines Muotes': Unanimity in Konrad's Rolandshed and Otto's and Rahewin's Gesta Frederici	p. 23
Some Analysis of the Castle of Bodiam, East Sussex	p. 51
Addendum, September 1992	p. 107
Stephen Scrope and the Circle of Sir John Fastolf: Moral and Intellectual Outlooks	p. 109
Peace and War in Early Eleventh-Century Aquitaine	p. 147
Perversion of an Ideal	p. 177
Arms and the Men: War, Loyalty and Lordship in Jordan Fantosme's Chronicle	p. 187
A Bell-House and a Burh-Geat: Lordly Residences in England Before the Norman Conquest	p. 221
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