These eight papers from the Strawberry Hill Conference cover a wide area, but common themes emerge. One group of essays deals with the embellishments of lordship, both architectural and heraldic, studying residences and also developments in armour. A second group concerns ideals which motivated the aristocracy of western Europe, from the late 10th to the 15th centuries: romances, the Peace movement of Aquitaine, holy war, and loyalty. Concentration on rationalism and free will in the writings of the cultural circle which revolved around Sir John Fastolf is identified as an important element in the development of the English Renaissance.
Professor CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL teaches in the Department of History, University of East Anglia; Dr RUTH HARVEY is lecturer in French, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
Contributors: ADRIAN AILES, JEFFREY ASHCROFT, CHARLES COULSON, JONATHAN HUGHES, JANE MARTINDALE, PETER NOBLE, MATTHEW STRICKLAND, ANN WILLIAMS
These eight papers from the Strawberry Hill Conference cover a wide area, but common themes emerge. One group of essays deals with the embellishments of lordship, both architectural and heraldic, studying residences and also developments in armour. A second group concerns ideals which motivated the aristocracy of western Europe, from the late 10th to the 15th centuries: romances, the Peace movement of Aquitaine, holy war, and loyalty. Concentration on rationalism and free will in the writings of the cultural circle which revolved around Sir John Fastolf is identified as an important element in the development of the English Renaissance.
Professor CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL teaches in the Department of History, University of East Anglia; Dr RUTH HARVEY is lecturer in French, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
Contributors: ADRIAN AILES, JEFFREY ASHCROFT, CHARLES COULSON, JONATHAN HUGHES, JANE MARTINDALE, PETER NOBLE, MATTHEW STRICKLAND, ANN WILLIAMS
Preface
Introduction
The Knight, Heraldry and Armour: The Role of Recognition and the
Origins of Heraldry - Adrian Ailes
'Si waren aines muotes': Unanimity in Konrad's Rolandslied and
Otto's and Rahewin's Gesta Frederici - Jeffrey Ashcroft
Some analysis of the Castle of Bodiam, East Sussex - Charles
Coulson
Stephen Scrope and the Circle of Sir John Fastolf: Moral and
Intellectual Outlooks - Jonathan Hughes
Peace and War in Early Eleventh-Century Aquitaine - Jane P.
Martindale
Perversion of an Ideal - Peter S Noble
Arms and the Men: War, Loyalty and Lordship in Jordan Fantosme's
Chronicle - Matthew J Strickland
A Bell-house and a Burh-geat: Lordly Residences in England before
the Norman Conquest - Ann Williams
Christopher Harper-Bill is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. Ruth Harvey is Senior Lecturer in French at Royal Holloway University of London
`Cumulatively [the volumes] are of increasing value as repositories
of scholarship on the multi-dimensional subject of knighthood ...
highly informative and useful.
*ALBION*
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