Peter Coss & Christopher Tyerman 
Soldiers, Nobles and Gentlemen 
Essays in Honour of Maurice Keen

New essays on chivalry, warfare, and treason and politics in the middle ages.


Chivalric culture, soldiers and soldiering, and treason, politics and the court form the main themes of this volume – as is appropriate in a book which honours the distinguished medievalist Maurice Keen. The essays, all by eminentscholars in the field, cover such topics as nobility and mobility in Anglo-Saxon society; chivalry and courtliness; the crusade and chivalric ideas; chivalry and art; devotional literature; piety and chivalry; military strategy;the victualling of castles; Bertrand du Guesclin; soldiers‘ wives; military communities in fourteenth-century England; military and administrative service among the fifteenth-century gentry; treason, disinvestiture and the disgracing of arms; and treason in Lancastrian Normandy. Overall, they reflect the range of the honoree’s interests, the depth of his scholarship, the international flavour of his work, and his unique contribution to historical scholarship. The volume includes appreciations from a former pupil and colleagues, and ends with a bibliography of his work.


CONTRIBUTORS: LINNIE RAWLINSON, MARTIN CONWAY, SIMON SKINNER, JAMES CAMPBELL, DAVID CROUCH, CHRISTOPHERTYERMAN, CRAIG TAYLOR, ADRIAN AILES, NIGEL SAUL, JEREMY CATTO, ROWENA ARCHER, CHRISTOPHER ALLMAND, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, MICHAEL JONES, ANNE CURRY, ANDREW AYTON, SIMON PAYLING, PETER COSS, MATTHEW STRICKLAND, JULIET BARKER, MALCOLM VALE, GERALD HARRISS, MARY KEEN

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface – Christopher J Tyerman

Mémoire – Linnie Rawlinson

The Multiple Maurices – Martin Conway and Simon A Skinner

Bibliography: The Writings of Maurice Keen

Introduction – Peter Coss

Aspects of Nobility and Mobility in Anglo-Saxon Society – James Campbell

Chivalry and Courtliness: Colliding Constructs – David Crouch

Court, Crusade and City: The Cultural Milieu of Louis I, duke of Bourbon – Christopher J Tyerman

English Writings on Chivalry and Warfare during the Hundred Years War – Craig D Taylor

Royal Grants of Arms in England before 1484 – Adrian Ailes

Chivalry and Art: The Camoys Family and the Wall Paintings in Trotton Church – Nigel Saul

The Prayers of the Bohuns – Jeremy Catto

Piety, Chivalry and Family: The Cartulary and Psalter of Sir Edmund Rede of Boarstall [d. 1489] – Rowena Archer

A Roman Text on War: The
Strategemata of Frontinus in the Middle Ages – Christopher Allmand

The Victualling of Castles – Michael C Prestwich

Bertrand du Guesclin, the Truce of Bruges and Campaigns in Périgord [1376] – Michael C E Jones

Soldiers‘ Wives in the Hundred Years War – Anne Curry

Armies and Military Communities in Fourteenth-Century England – Andrew Ayton

War and Peace: Military and Administrative Service amongst the English Gentry in the Reign of Henry VI – Simon Payling

Law and Political Culture in Thirteenth-Century England: The Treason Trial of 1225 – Peter Coss

‚All Brought to Nought and Thy State Undone‘: Treason, Disinvestiture and the Disgracing of Arms under Edward II – Matthew J Strickland

The Foe Within: Treason in Lancastrian Normandy – Juliet Barker

Richard duke of York and the Royal Household – G.L. Harriss

From the Court of Richard II to the Court of Prempeh I: The problem of the ‚Asante‘ ewers – Malcolm Vale

Über den Autor

Nigel Saul is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London