Published for The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, Inc.
In a series of essays readers will find information about modern scholarship on the subject of chivalry and various suggestions for ways to teach some familiar and unfamiliar chivalric materials. Short bibliographies are provided for teachers' further use.
In 1982 TEAMS (the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) came to the felicitous decision that chivalry would be an ideal subject for cross-disciplinary and collaborative treatment. Within a year an initial meeting was convened, the profession polled by questionnaire, a core of participants recruited, and plans laid which have resulted in twenty-one contributions in the volume at hand under the editorship of Howell Chickering and Thomas H. Seiler. The overall goal is to provide a collection of 'resources for the undergraduate teaching of the topic of chivalry,' understood in the three senses of military expertise, social class, and a code of conduct.
Author(s): Howell Chickering, Thomas H. Seiler (eds.)
Series: Medieval Institute Publications
Publisher: Western Michigan University
Year: 1988
Language: English
Pages: 710
City: Kalamazoo
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction / Howell Chickering 1
PART I. THE MODERN STUDY OF CHIVALRY
Modern Views of Medieval Chivalry, 1884-1984 / Jeremy duQuesnay Adams 41
The Criticism of Chivalric Epic and Romance / Robert W. Hanning 91
Teaching Chivalry: From Footnote to Foreground / Elizabeth B. Keiser and Bonnie Wheeler 115
PART II. HISTORICAL AND VISUAL APPROACHES
Religious Writers and Church Councils on Chivalry / David Carlson 141
'Caballus et Caballarius' in Medieval Warfare / Bernard S. Bachrach 173
The Tournament: An Historical Sketch / Helmut Nickel 213
The Technology of Chivalry in Reality and Romance / Rosemary Ascherl 263
Medieval Seals and the Structure of Chivalric Society / Brigitte Bedos Rezak 313
Early Medieval Images of the Horseman Re-Viewed / Linda Seidel 373
PART III. TEACHING EARLY CHIVALRIC LITERATURE
Chevalier in Twelfth-Century French and Occitan Vernacular Literature / Margaret Switten 403
The 'Recréantise' Episode in Chrétien’s 'Erec et Enide' / Nancy Bradley-Cromey 449
Chivalric Education in Wolfram’s 'Parzival' and Gottfried’s 'Tristan' / Jill P. McDonald 473
Using Translation / Dennis M. Kratz 491
PART IV. TEACHING LATER CHIVALRIC LITERATURE
Christine de Pizan on Chivalry / Charity Cannon Willard 511
Malory’s 'Morte Darthur' and the Alliterative 'Morte Arthure' / Dhira B. Mahoney 529
Teaching the 'Pas d'Armes' / Anthony Annunziata 557
Teaching the Motifs of Chivalric Biography / William T. Cotton 583
The Vows of the Pheasant and Late Chivalric Ritual / Gail Orgelfinger 611
Caxton’s Chivalric Publications of 1480-85 / Jennifer R. Goodman 645
The 'Unknightly Knight': Teaching Satires on Chivalry / Robert L. Kindrick 663
Index 683
