David Crouch : The Chivalric Turn. Conduct and Hegemony in Europe Before 1300
The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have tended to understand medieval conduct through the (...)
Sophie Harwood : Medieval Women and War Female Roles in the Old French Tradition
For the first time, Sophie Harwood uses the Old French tradition as a lens through which to examine women and warfare from the 12th to the 14th centuries. The result is a skilled analysis of gender roles in the medieval era, and a heightened (...)