Author: Dörschel, Florian Tobias.
Title: Ritterliche Taten der Gewalt. Formen und Funktionen physischer Gewalt im Selbstverständnis des deutschen Rittertums im ausgehenden Mittelalter.
Description: Leiden & Boston, Brill, [2023]. XIII,383 pp. Ills (chiefly col.). Orig. hardcover (boards). 8vo. (Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, Vol. 233). [SBN: 978-90-04-30220-4].In Ritterliche Taten der Gewalt (Chivalrous Violence) Florian Dörschel deals with the martial side of German chivalry during the transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. Chivalry is important not only for the self-image of the social group of knighted men, whose numbers declined over the course of the Middle Ages. An extraordinary power radiated from it: chivalrous norms shaped medieval societies as a whole, from Holy Roman Emperor to burgher. This knightly culture was especially expressed in the knight’s self-understanding as warrior. Consequently, physical violence stood at the centre, not periphery, of representation and communication in social, military, and political life. The study is primarily based on biographical and autobiographical sources. - Text in German. - Publisher's retail price: € 140,61

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