Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-317) and index
Violent knights, holy knights -- Two model knight/authors as guides -- The religious context for chivalric ideology -- Independence in knightly piety -- Knightly ideology developed and disseminated -- The hero and the suffering servant -- Knighthood and the new lay theology : ordines and labor -- Knighthood and the new lay theology : confession and penance -- Writing the death certificate for chivalric ideology
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This study argues that chivalric ideology of the high and later Middle Ages selectively appropriated religious ideas to valorise the institution of knighthood, and describes how both elite warriors and clerics contributed to a Christian theology that validated the knights' bloody profession
Chivalry-- Europe-- History-- To 1500
Chivalry in literature
Chivalry-- Religious aspects
Civilization, Medieval
Knights and knighthood-- Europe-- History-- To 1500