My fourth-year seminar, 2012-13

As per usual, next fall I will be teaching HIST 4505, "Topics in Medieval History."

For the benefit of any of my students who stop by here: the topic will be "Chivalry." It's a big subject, especially if you bring in all the various points of view: what poets, chroniclers, preachers, and knights themselves said chivalry was, or should be.

Here's a pre-course reading list for any of you who might be really enthusiastic. It's taken right off the NU library catalogue, and it's just a sample; there is plenty more where that came from. Read one of these, and you have a good head-start; read a second one and you are really off to the races.

CR4509 .B37 1974
Knight and chivalry / Richard Barber.

CR4513 .K34 1996

The book of chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny : text, context, and translation/Richard W. Kaeuper,

CR4513 .K44 1984
Chivalry / Maurice Keen.

CR4519 .K347 2009
Holy warriors : the religious ideology of chivalry/Richard W. Kaeuper

CR4529.E85 K33 1999
Chivalry and violence in medieval Europe / Richard W. Kaeuper

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CR4529.F8 P3
French chivalry : chivalric ideas and practices in mediaeval France / by Sidney Painter.

CR4553 .H84 2005
Deeds of arms : formal combats in the late fourteenth century / Steven Muhlberger.

DA185 .C64 1996

The knight in medieval England, 1000-1400 / Peter Coss.

DC33.2 .B59 1998
Strong of body, brave and noble : chivalry and society in medieval France / Constance Brittain Bouchard.

DC96.5 .W75 2000
Knights and peasants : the Hundred Years War in the French countryside / Nicholas Wright.

HN11 .D7813 1980

The chivalrous society / Georges Duby ; translated by Cynthia Postan.

Image:  One medieval take on the ideal knight, bearing the symbol of the Holy Trinity.