Kings, Knights and Bankers : The Collected Articles of Richard W. Kaeuper.
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Intro -- Kings, Knights and Bankers: The Collected Articles of Richard W. Kaeuper -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART 1: The English Crown and Italian Financiers -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1: The Societas Riccardorum and Economic Change -- 2: The Role of Italian Financiers in the Edwardian Conquest of Wales -- 3: Royal Finance and the Crisis of 1297 -- 4: The Frescobaldi of Florence and the English Crown -- PART 2: Law and Disorder -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 5: Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer -- 6: An Historian's Reading of The Tale of Gamelyn -- 7: Debating Law, Justice, and Constitutionalism -- 8: The King and the Fox: Reaction to the Role of Kingship in Tales of Reynard the Fox -- PART 3: Chivalry and Literature -- Introduction to Part 3 -- 9: Literature as Essential Evidence for Understanding Chivalry -- 10: William Marshal, Lancelot, and the Issue of Chivalric Identity -- 11: Chivalry in Barbour's Bruce -- 12: Baudoin De Conde, Violence, and War -- 13: Chivalry: Fantasy and Fear -- 14: Chivalry and the 'Civilizing Process' -- 15: The Societal Role of Chivalry in Romance: Northwestern Europe -- 16: Telling it Like it Was? Mark Twain's Rereading of Chivalry in Malory's Morte Darthur -- PART 4: Holy Warriors -- Introduction to Part 4 -- 17: Piety and Independence in Chivalric Religion -- 18: Chivalric Violence and Religious Valorization -- 19: John Ruskin, the Medieval Ordines, and Meritorious Suffering -- 20: Vengeance and Mercy in Chivalric Mentalité -- Index.
In Kings, Knights, and Bankers, Richard Kaeuper presents a lifetime of research on Italian financiers, English kingship, chivalric violence, and knightly piety.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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