Pas d'armes and Late Medieval Chivalry

Rosalind Brown-Grant is Professor Emerita of Late Medieval French Literature, University of Leeds. She has published on Christine de Pizan, late medieval romance and historiographical works, and text-image relations in medieval manuscripts; she has also edited and translated several Middle French texts. Mario Damen is Associate Professor in Medieval History, University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the cultural and socio-political history of the late medieval Low Countries in general, and on the nobility and tournaments in particular.

• Foreword and acknowledgementsList of abbreviationsList of contributorsList of illustrationsIntroduction: Pas d’armes and Late Medieval Chivalry Rosalind Brown-Grant, Mario Damen and Catherine BlunkNote to the translationsPart I: SourcesSource 1: Le Roman de Ponthus et Sidoine (The Romance of Ponthus and Sidoine)Rosalind Brown-Grant and Christina NormoreSource 2: The Paso de la Fuerte Ventura (Paso of the Daunting Adventure), Valladolid, 1428Mario DamenSource 3: The Paso de Valladolid (Paso of Valladolid), 1440Mario DamenSource 4: The Pas de l’Arbre Charlemagne (Pas of the Tree of Charlemagne), Marsannay-la-Côte, 1443Rosalind Brown-GrantSource 5: The Pas de la Joyeuse Garde/Pas de Saumur (Pas of the Joyous Guard/Pas of Saumur), 1446Catherine BlunkSource 6: The Pas de la Bergère (Pas of the Shepherdess), Tarascon, 1449Rosalind Brown-Grant and Christina NormoreSource 7: The Pas de la Fontaine des Pleurs (Pas of the Fountain of Tears), Chalon-sur-Saône, 1449–50Rosalind Brown-GrantSource 8: The Paso de El Pardo (Paso of El Pardo), 1459*Mario DamenSource 9: The Pas du Compagnon à la Larme Blanche (Pas of the Companion of the White Teardrop), Le Quesnoy, 1458Klaus OschemaSource 10: The Paso de Jaén (Paso of Jaén), 1462Mario DamenSource 11a: The Pas du Perron Fée (Pas of the Enchanted Column) Bruges, 1463Michelle SzkilnikSource 11b: The Pas du Perron Fée (Pas of the Enchanted Column) Bruges, 1463Mario DamenSource 12: The Pas de l’Arbre d’Or (Pas of the Golden* Tree) Bruges, 1468Ralph MoffatSource 13: The Pas des armes de Sandricourt (Pas of Sandricourt), 1493Rosalind Brown-GrantSource 14: The Pas of Brussels, 1503Mario DamenSource 15: The Pas of Carignano, 1504 Thalia Brero and Rosalind Brown-GrantSource 16: The Emprise of the Wild Knight of the Black Lady, Edinburgh, 1507Alan V. Murray and Rosalind Brown-GrantPart II: EssaysEssay 1: The Pas d’armes in Europe (15th–16th Centuries): The Transfer and Transformation of a Chivalric EventThalia Brero, Mario Damen and Klaus OschemaEssay 2: The Relation du Pas de Saumur: Text, Image, and ContextAnne D. Hedeman and Justin SturgeonEssay 3: The Social and Literary Environment of a Chivalric Event: The Case of the Pas du Perron Fée, Bruges 1463Mario Damen and Michelle SzkilnikEssay 4: ‘In the Way of the Knights-Errant’: The Sixteenth-Century Legacy of a Roleplay Game from the Pas des armes de Sandricourt (1493)Marina ViallonEssay 5: The Pas d’armes in Scotland: King James IV and the Tournaments of the Wild Knight of the Black Lady (1507–08)Alan V. MurrayEssay 6: Pas d’armes and the Construction of Chivalric Masculinity: Ethics and Erotics of Knightly CombatRosalind Brown-GrantEssay 7: Exceptional Bodies in the Relation du Pas de SaumurChristina NormoreGlossary Ralph MoffatBibliographyIndex

'This is an excellent book, and a much-needed and much-welcomed study of a previously neglected subject.' Ken Mondschein, The Medieval Review