Knights at Court |
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
INTRODUCTION |
PART ONE— MATERIAL CONDITIONS AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND |
Chapter One— Noblemen at Court |
PART TWO— THE ETHICAL CODES |
Chapter Two— The Origins of Courtliness |
Chapter Three— Courtliness and Chivalry in France |
PART THREE— IMAGINATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS |
Chapter Four— Troubadours, Trouvères, and Minnesingers |
Chapter Five— Courtesy in the French Romance |
Chapter Six— Epic and Romance in Germany |
PART FOUR— THE ITALIAN SCENE |
Chapter Seven— The Origins |
• | Italians at German Courts |
• | Troubadours, Dictatores, and Political Theorists in Italy |
• | First Poetic Schools and Early Prose Narrative |
Chapter Eight— Dante, Petrarca, and Boccaccio |
Chapter Nine— Renaissance Transformations: I |
Chapter Ten— Renaissance Transformations: II |
PART FIVE— THE SHIFT TO ABSOLUTISM |
Chapter Eleven— From Courtly Knights to Noble Courtiers |
CONCLUSION |
APPENDIX— ALBRECHT VON EYB AND THE LEGEND OF ST. ALBAN |
Notes |
REFERENCES |
INDEX |