Prowess, Piety, and Public Order in Medieval Society

Craig M. Nakashian, Ph.D. (2010), University of Rochester, is an Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Texarkana. He has published on religion and war in the Middle Ages, including Warrior Churchmen of Medieval England, 1000-1250 (Boydell & Brewer, 2016). Daniel P. Franke, Ph.D. (2014), University of Rochester, is an Assistant Professor of History at Richard Bland College of William and Mary. He has published on the crusades and warfare and is writing a monograph on the earls of Suffolk.

• ContentsPreface: Richard W. Kaeuper as Mentor xiiiLeah Shopkow, Craig M. Nakashian and Daniel P. FrankeAcknowledgements xviiiList of Contributors xixIntroduction: Richard W. Kaeuper as Historian 1Craig M. Nakashianpart 1War and Chivalry1 Is the Song of Roland’s Roncevalles a Military Satire? 15Bernard S. Bachrach2 Chivalric Carnage? Fighting, Capturing and Killing at the Battles of Doland Fornham in 1173 36John D. Hosler3 Prowess and Privilege: Robert Ufford, Earl of Suffolk and the Limits ofChivalry in Edward iii’s England 62Daniel P. Frankepart 2Chivalric Identities4 The Violence of the Preudomme 87David Crouch5 Chivalry and Honor-Violence in Late Medieval Florence 102Peter W. Sposato6 Loyalty, Autonomy, and Virtue: Redefining Nobility in Late-Medieval Castile 120Thomas Devaney7 English Chivalry and the Decline of Strenuous Knighthood in theLater Fifteenth Century 140Anthony J. Pollardpart 3Religion and Violence8 “Li arcevesque est mult bon chevalier”: The Chivalric Ideals ofArchbishop Turpin 161Craig M. Nakashian9 Mooning the Abbot: A Tale of Disorder, Vulgarity, Ethnicity, andUnderwear in the Monastery 179Leah Shopkow10 Chivalric and Religious Valorization of Warfare in High MedievalFrance 199Samuel A. Claussen11 Morality and Legality in Late Medieval England: The Evidence ofBenedictine Sermon Collections 218Christopher Guyolpart 4Kingship, Public Order, and the State12 Philip the Fair of France, Nemesis of Edward i of England 237Elizabeth A.R. Brown13 Edward i: A Chivalric King? 265Michael Prestwich14 Expenses Related to Corporal Punishment in France 286William Chester Jordan15 Pardon, Parliament and Political Performance in Later Medieval England 301W. Mark Ormrodpart 5Literature and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Europe16 A Reconsideration of Middle Welsh Literature as Historical Evidencefor Social Violence 323Sebastian Rider-Bezerra17 Chivalry and the Wise Watchman: A Study of Patience, Penance, andthe Homeward Journey in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Troilus andCriseyde 344Russell A. Peck18 Sword-made Men: Mystical Armament and Earthly Authority inMalory’s Le Morte Darthur 368Paul Dingman19 Refighting Carlo Ginzburg’s Night Battles 381Richard Firth GreenIndex of Modern Authors 403Index of Names and Subjects 405Index of Ancient Sources 4