Study of Chivalry

Howell Chickering is a Professor Emeritus at Amherst College, specializing in Medieval English Poetry.Thomas H. Seiler is a Professor Emeritus at Western Michigan University, specializing in Medieval British literature.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction, by Howell ChickeringPart I: The Modern Study of ChivalryModern Views of Medieval Chivalry, 1884–1984, by Jeremy duQuesnay AdamsThe Criticism of Chivalric Epic and Romance, by Robert W. HanningReaching Chivalry: From Footnote to Foreground, by Elizabeth B. Keiser and Bonnie WheelerPart II: Historical and Visual ApproachesReligious Writers and Church Councils on Chivalry, by David CarlsonCaballus et Caballarius in Medieval Warfare, by Bernard S. BachrachThe Tournament: An Historical Sketch, by Helmut NickelThe Technology of Chivalry in Reality and Romance, by Rosemary AscherlMedieval Seals and the Structure of Chivalric Society, by Brigitte Bedos RezakEarly Medieval Images of the Horseman Re-Viewed, by Linda SeidelPart III: Teaching Early Chivalric LiteratureChevalier in Twelfth-Century French and Occitan Vernacular Literature, by Margaret SwittenThe “Recréantise” Episode in Chrétien’s Erec et Enide, by Nancy Bradley-CromeyChivalric Education in Wolfram’s Parzival and Gottfried’s Tristan, by Jill P. McDonaldUsing Translation, by Dennis M. KratzPart IV: Teaching Later Chivalric LiteratureChristine de Pizan on Chivalry, by Charity Cannon WardMalory’s Morte Darthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure, by Dhira B. MahoneyTeaching the Pas d’Armes, by Anthony AnnunziataTeaching the Motifs of Chivalric Biography, by William T. CottonThe Vows of the Pheasant and Late Chivalric Ritual, by Gail OrgelfingerCaxton’s Chivalric Publications of 1480–85, by Jennifer R. GoodmanThe “Unknightly Knight”: Teaching Satires on Chivalry, by Robert L. KindrickIndex