The Origins of Courtliness

Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210

C Stephen Jaeger author

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