Knights at Court
  PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART ONE—  MATERIAL CONDITIONS AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND
 collapse sectionChapter One—  Noblemen at Court
 •Nobility and Knighthood
 •Germany
 •France
 •Italy
 •Further Suggestions

 collapse sectionPART TWO—  THE ETHICAL CODES
 collapse sectionChapter Two—  The Origins of Courtliness
 •Curiales and Courtier Bishops
 •A Ciceronian Connection
 •Evolution of the Curial Ethos
 •Monastic Reactions
 •From Curiales to Courtiers
 •The German/French Connection
 •The Terminology
 collapse sectionChapter Three—  Courtliness and Chivalry in France
 •Courtly Knights and Chivalrous Princes:  From Reality to Ideation (and Vice Versa)
 •Chivalry Comes of Age
 •Technical Treatments of Chivalry
 •Giles of Rome, or the Merging of the three Codes

 collapse sectionPART THREE—  IMAGINATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS
 collapse sectionChapter Four—  Troubadours, Trouvères, and Minnesingers
 •Courtesy and Chivalry in the Occitan Lyric
 •The French Trouvères
 •The German Minnesang
 collapse sectionChapter Five—  Courtesy in the French Romance
 •From Epic to Romance:  The First Generation
 •The Age of Chrétien
 •Cyclical Prose Romances and Later Developments
 •Some English Texts
 collapse sectionChapter Six—  Epic and Romance in Germany
 •Intergeneric Dominants
 •Chivalry and the German Epic
 •Gottfried's Tristan
 •Wolfram's Parzival
 •Hartmann's Iwein

 collapse sectionPART FOUR—  THE ITALIAN SCENE
 collapse sectionChapter Seven—  The Origins
 •Italians at German Courts
 •Troubadours, Dictatores, and Political Theorists in Italy
 •First Poetic Schools and Early Prose Narrative
 collapse sectionChapter Eight—  Dante, Petrarca, and Boccaccio
 •Dante (1265–1321)
 •Petrarca (1304–1374)
 •Boccaccio (1313–1375)
 collapse sectionChapter Nine—  Renaissance Transformations:  I
 •The Paideia of Humanism
 •Papal Curia and Courtier Clerics
 •Castiglione's Courtier
 •Machiavelli (1469–1527) and the Court as Artifice
 collapse sectionChapter Ten—  Renaissance Transformations:  II
 •Educators at Court
 •The Courtesy Book
 •The Humanists' Ethical View of Man as Citizen
 •Court and World as Actor's Stage
 •The Novels of Chivalry, 1300–1600
 •Tasso and the Counter-Reformation

 collapse sectionPART FIVE—  THE SHIFT TO ABSOLUTISM
 collapse sectionChapter Eleven—  From Courtly Knights to Noble Courtiers
 •The Model Consolidates
 •New Orientations in France (and England)
 •The School of Courtly Manners in the Age of Louis XIII
 •Imitation and Transformation in Germany
  CONCLUSION

  APPENDIX—  ALBRECHT VON EYB AND THE LEGEND OF ST. ALBAN
 collapse sectionNotes
 •INTRODUCTION
 •Chapter One— Noblemen at Court
 •Chapter Two— The Origins of Courtliness
 •Chapter Three— Courtliness and Chivalry in France
 •Chapter Four— Troubadours, Trouvères, and Minnesingers
 •Chapter Five— Courtesy in the French Romance
 •Chapter Six— Epic and Romance in Germany
 •Chapter Seven— The Origins
 •Chapter Eight— Dante, Petrarca, and Boccaccio
 •Chapter Nine— Renaissance Transformations: I
 •Chapter Ten— Renaissance Transformations: II
 •Chapter Eleven— From Courtly Knights to Noble Courtiers
 •CONCLUSION
 •APPENDIX— ALBRECHT VON EYB AND THE LEGEND OF ST. ALBAN
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 •Appendix References
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