Jesús D Rodríguez-Velasco

Order and Chivalry

Knighthood and Citizenship in Late Medieval Castile
Übersetzer: Ferguson, Eunice Rodríguez

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Order and Chivalry" explores the role of chivalry in the emergence of the bourgeoisie in fourteenth-century Castile. This book shows how the texts that shaped urban knighthood also transformed the middle class, the idea of the city, and the practice of citizenship in medieval Iberia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780812242126
• ISBN-10: 0812242122
• Artikelnr.: 30518294

Autorenporträt

Jesus D. Rodriguez-Velasco is Professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
One. Ritual as a Strategy for Chivalric Creation
Two. Poetics of Fraternity
Three. The Presence of the Confraternity
Four. The Order of the Sash
Five. Rewriting the Order
Six. Poetics of the Chivalric Emblem
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments