This volume, intended for the general reader, throws a flood of light on that very characteristic feature of the Middle Ages, the institution of Chivalry. The first chapter deals with the place of chivalry in history, showing its effects and influences. Subsequent chapters show its earliest beginnings and its nature in France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, etc. Among other subjects dealt with are the Courtesy books and the romances of Chivalry and the idea of a gentleman in connection with Chivalry. The whole forms an introduction to students in a field that has been greatly neglected in recent...

The spirit of chivalry entered into all aspects of the Middle Ages. The rules of chivalry are now very remote from our lives. Using contemporary writing, the author attributes the unity and universality of the movement. The work illustrates and shows us a society that was once Europe-wide and now gone.

It is the purpose of the author of this work to consider the principles of chivalry and to describe the chivalric feeling which has emanated from the Middle Ages and to trace its operations on the mind and actions of mankind. The manners and ideas explained here may appear odd to us now, but they were very real to the medieval people of the time they represent.

"The Romances of Chivalry" are not generally known to the general reader. They were the 'novels' of the thirteenth century to the seventeenth century. This is a carefully selected collection of the best of these romances presenting the best of an important tradition.

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This work brings to life and collects those obscure works written when chivalry was a living tradition that had spread across the whole of Europe.

This work brings to life and collects those obscure works written when chivalry was a living tradition that had spread across the whole of Europe.

This book provides a comprehensive review of a remarkable popular literary movement which began in the Spanish peninsula about the turn of the fifteenth century, spread over western Europe, including England, and, having flourished and exercised a considerable influence for some time, died out so completely as to be almost forgotten. Many of the romances created by the movement are now extremely rare and so they are presented here in one volume for the benefit of scholars and general readers alike.

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This central and important book reliably presents to us, in one volume, three of the most interesting contemporary accounts of the Crusades. The first is by Richard of Devizes and tells not only of events taking place in the Holy Land but also connects these with what was happening in England at the time. The second account is a work by Geoffrey de Vinsauf on the Third Crusade. The third work is a memoir of Saint Louis, the Crusading King of France, written by Lord John de Joinville.