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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... books Didactic works prescribing forms of outward behaviour, for example table manners, in secular society. They are distinguished from the didactic literature concerned with spiritual improvement, and may be considered alongside manuals of *chivalry , eloquence, and *courtly love . Partially inspired by monastic rules and customaries, conduct literature proliferated throughout Europe in the later MA and afterwards. The *‘Mirror for Princes’ sub-genre is often studied, but courtesy books for women and for the emerging bourgeois elite are now...
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chivalry and knighthood Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
...such as largesse, courtesy, courage, honour, and service, and who displays military prowess, excelling in feats of arms both on the battlefield and in tournaments. Above all, knights were expected to be without fear and beyond reproach. 2. Courtesy books References to chivalry are found not only in vernacular literature but also in *courtesy books . Courtesy books were manuals directed to a particular group of people that outlined proper codes of conduct; these books were prevalent during the MA and some were written for knights. Books on chivalry provided...
courtliness and courtesy Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
...the ideals of courtliness and courtesy . However, other writers, including Alain Chartier and the anonymous authors of the * fabliaux , call into question the excesses of courtly conduct. Even Chrétien de Troyes , in his last romance, Perceval or Le Conte del Graal ( c .1190 ), reminds his readers that societies devoted to tournaments and refined pleasures are doomed to failure if they do not find their primary purpose in the service of God. See also chivalry and knighthood ; court poetry ; courtesy books ; courts of love . Sarah Jane Murray...
courtly love Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
...Paris emphasized the illegitimate character of the love between Lancelot and Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur ; the inferior position of the lover vis-à-vis his lady; the fact that such a love made the lover more valiant and that love was an art with a code, as also were courtesy and chivalry . This definition led a certain number of scholars astray because they took it in a too universal sense, while it applied almost exclusively to a single Romance . In the same Chrétien's Érec et Énide , for example, “courtly” love is deployed in a matrimonial...
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Anthony Cutler
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
...cf. 13319, 13320). [ Ana ]stasios, priest and painter of the Church of St. George at Apodoulos, Crete, 14th/15th C. (Kalokyris, Crete 33; PLP , no.90088). Andrea[s], sculptor named in an inscription on the upper cornice of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (unpublished; notice courtesy of L.E. Butler). Apokaukos, Alexios , painter on Crete, fl. 1402–1421 , executor of the will of Joseph Bryennios ( PLP , no.1194). Apseudes , Theodore . Argyros , John, painted a series of miniatures of the labors of the months in the typikon of the monastery of St....
Chivalry, orders of Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Later Medieval Europe, 1325–1520 (Woodbridge, 1987) Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England, 1200–1400 (exh. cat., ed. J. Alexander and P. Binski ; London, RA, 1987–8) A. Scaglione : Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley, CA, and Oxford, 1991) R. W. Lightbown : Medieval European Jewellery (London, 1992) F. Cardini : ‘Cavalleria’, Enciclopedia dell’arte medievale , iv (Rome, 1993), pp. 580–55 F. Pomarici : ‘Cavaliere’, Enciclopedia...
