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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Knighthood"”.
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The medieval Miles Christi and the Anabaptist knight : chivalric imagination in the Radical Reformation.
… the Middle Ages, I trace out the contours of the knighthood motif as it arose and grew in popularity among clerical writers. This study asserts that the constellation of ideas that typified the ideal knight translated quite naturally to ministerial self-constructions, as the assertion of spiritual …
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Chaucerian imperfections: The other and the turbulant self
… of Church and b) the secular institution of Knighthood. This is why the thesis settled on the Prioress’s Tale and the Knight’s Tale as its only foci of discussion, though I seek to connect what the tales have to narrate to a few medieval primary sources as well as few other literary works.
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Great Men, Heroic Deeds: The Influences of the Nine Heros During the Late Middle Age
… the image of chivalry and the institution of knighthood, this study looks at how these men were used as symbolic tools to support and preserve the medieval heroic ideal.</p> <p>-Thesis excerpt-</p>
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The sculptor Sir George Frampton
… and ideal work. By 1908 when he received his knighthood, Frampton was a respected, efficient and dextrous maker of commissioned work and numerous prestigious schemes were afforded him. This range of work will be examined in depth and my research has uncovered many new works in these genres. It …
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A comparison of two medieval story-tellers : Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
… was a time change: the age of chivalry and true knighthood was ending; the middle class was establishing commerce, towns, guilds; openly and violently the peasants were beginning to reject their servile positions; the corruption within the organized church was being publicly exposed, and efforts, …
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The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance
… focusing on a particular issue of English knighthood being interrogated. Chapter three suggests that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight repurposes the character of Gawain to observe the importance of oath taking and the bonds formed by knights from the practice of such. Chapter four focuses on …
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Saints George, Sebastian, and Eustace in Medieval Castilian Prose Hagiography
… Chapter Four looks at the tension between knighthood and martyrdom in representations of George, exploring the rich interpretations that are made possible by the juxtaposition of the secular and the religious. Chapter Five examines the nature of social relationships and interweaving …
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The violin sonatas of Heinrich Franz Biber
… and Lord High Steward, but also had achieved knighthood. Biber wrote a considerable quantity of music, both vocal and instrumental. A virtuoso of the violin, his compositions for that instrument are technically complicated. They are of a typically middle Baroque, North European quality - …
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"Nor fear I censure" : early modern women writers and issues of authority, 1578-1680.
… Tyler's The Mirror of Princely Deeds and Knighthood (1578); Anne Dowriche's The French Historie (1589); Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (1621); and Elizabeth Cary's History of Edward II (composed c. 1627; published 1680). I explore the methods by which each of these …
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Elite Networks and Courtly Culture in Medieval Denmark: Denmark in Europe, 1st to 14th Centuries
… courtly culture, including cavalry warfare and knighthood, courtly food consumption and feasting, and courtly dress and ornamentation, resulting in increased social differentiation between those who could take part in the new courtly culture and those who could not. Thus, Denmark was never …
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Child Kingship in England, Scotland, France, and Germany, c.1050 - c.1250
… for a child king. The symbolic meaning of knighthood, which had been a clear rite of passage to adulthood in the eleventh century, later became a precursor to kingship. The child’s progression to maturity was increasingly directed by legalistic ideas. These developments meant that, by the …
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Chivalry and Crisis at the Court of Juan II of Castile: The Chivalric Writing of Alonso de Cartagena and his Contemporaries
… and nobility and instead argued for a view of knighthood grounded in individual good conduct and personal worth, in place of lineage and inherited status. This study argues that the civil war in Castile paved the way for the development of a rich literature of chivalric reform and facilitated …