Knights at Court
  PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART ONE—  MATERIAL CONDITIONS AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND
 expand sectionChapter One—  Noblemen at Court

 collapse sectionPART TWO—  THE ETHICAL CODES
 expand sectionChapter Two—  The Origins of Courtliness
 expand sectionChapter Three—  Courtliness and Chivalry in France

 collapse sectionPART THREE—  IMAGINATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS
 expand sectionChapter Four—  Troubadours, Trouvères, and Minnesingers
 expand sectionChapter Five—  Courtesy in the French Romance
 expand sectionChapter Six—  Epic and Romance in Germany

 collapse sectionPART FOUR—  THE ITALIAN SCENE
 expand sectionChapter Seven—  The Origins
 expand sectionChapter Eight—  Dante, Petrarca, and Boccaccio
 expand sectionChapter Nine—  Renaissance Transformations:  I
 expand sectionChapter Ten—  Renaissance Transformations:  II

 collapse sectionPART FIVE—  THE SHIFT TO ABSOLUTISM
 expand sectionChapter Eleven—  From Courtly Knights to Noble Courtiers
  CONCLUSION

  APPENDIX—  ALBRECHT VON EYB AND THE LEGEND OF ST. ALBAN
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 expand sectionREFERENCES
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