The Origins of Courtliness
Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Published:1st Sep '85
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book
Argues that the origins of courtliness lie in the German courts, their courtier class, and the education for court service in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
"The most original contribution to the ideological history of medieval aristocratic mores that has appeared."—American Historical Journal
ISBN: 9780812213072
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340 pages