David Crouch is a fellow of the British Academy and author of a number of editions of medieval documents, most recently The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family (2015) for the Camden Society. He has written extensively on medieval politics and society, and was also editor of Volume 10 (Howden and Howdenshire) of the Victoria History of Yorkshire East Riding. David Crouch is a fellow of the British Academy and author of a number of editions of medieval documents, most recently The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family (2015) for the Camden Society. He has written extensively on medieval politics and society, and was also editor of Volume 10 (Howden and Howdenshire) of the Victoria History of Yorkshire East Riding.

`offers interesting and unusual insights into the life of the medieval knight.' Zeitschr - fur Rom. Philol105, 5/6 1989

• PrefaceIntroductionStrategies of Lordship in Angevin England and the Career of William Marshal - David CrouchFrom Clerk to Knight: Changing Orders - Jean DunbabinKnights and Knighthood in Girart de Rousillon - W. Mary HackettThe Depiction of Battle in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm - Martin H JonesThe Quest for Identity and the Importance of Lineage in Thirteenth-Century French Prose Romance - Elspeth Kennedy'Cavalaria et Orgueill': Duke William IX of Aquitaine and the Historian - Jane P. MartindaleMilitary Surgery: Knights, Sergeants and Raimon of Avignon's Version of the Chirurgia of Roger of Salerno [1180-1209] -