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. HanningTeaching 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 Chivalri 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