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 |
![]() | Chapter Eight— Dante, Petrarca, and Boccaccio |
![]() | Chapter Nine— Renaissance Transformations: I |
![]() | Chapter 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 |
![]() | 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 |