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Kings, knights and bankers : the collected articles of Richard W. Kaeuper
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In Kings, Knights, and Bankers , Richard Kaeuper presents a lifetime of medieval research on Italian financiers, English kingship, chivalric violence, and knightly piety. His foundational work on p...
In Kings, Knights, and Bankers , Richard Kaeuper presents a lifetime of medieval research on Italian financiers, English kingship, chivalric violence, and knightly piety. His foundational work on public finance connects Italian merchant banking with the growth of state power at the turn of the fourteenth century. Subsequent articles on law and order offer measured contributions to the continuing debate over the growth of governance and its relationship with contemporary disorder. He also convincingly proves that knights, the foremost military professionals of the medieval world, considered their prowess as both a source of honor and of sanctification. All interested in the history of medieval chivalry, governance, piety, and public finance can learn from this impressive collection of articles.
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- Creator
- edited by Christopher Guyol
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9789004302655, 9004302654, 9004280480
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- English
- Preliminary Material / Christopher Guyol -- Introduction / The Societas Riccardorum and Economic Change / The Role of Italian Financiers in the Edwardian Conquest of Wales / Royal Finance and the Crisis of 1297 / The Frescobaldi of Florence and the English Crown / Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer / An Historian’s Reading of The Tale of Gamelyn / Debating Law, Justice, and Constitutionalism / The King and the Fox: Reaction to the Role of Kingship in Tales of Reynard the Fox / Literature as Essential Evidence for Understanding Chivalry / William Marshal, Lancelot, and the Issue of Chivalric Identity / Chivalry in Barbour’s Bruce / Baudoin De Conde, Violence, and War / Chivalry: Fantasy and Fear / Chivalry and the ‘Civilizing Process’ / The Societal Role of Chivalry in Romance: Northwestern Europe / Telling it Like it Was? Mark Twain’s Rereading of Chivalry in Malory’s Morte Darthur / Piety and Independence in Chivalric Religion / Chivalric Violence and Religious Valorization / John Ruskin, the Medieval Ordines, and Meritorious Suffering / Vengeance and Mercy in Chivalric Mentalité / Index / Christopher Guyol
Subjects
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
- Economic history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
- Finance, Public -- Europe -- History.
- Violence -- Europe -- History.
- Violence -- History -- To 1500.
- Chivalry -- Religious aspects.
- Chivalry -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
- Knights and knighthood -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.