 | Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry Subjects: Chivalry -- Religious aspects; Chivalry -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Knights and knighthood -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Chivalry in literature; Civilization Medieval; Europe -- Church history -- 600–1500; Kaeuper argues that chivalric ideology of the high and later Middle Ages selectively appropriated religious ideas to valorize the institution of knighthood. He describes how both elite warriors and clerics contributed to a Christian theology that validated the knights' bloody profession. Richard W. Kaeuper is Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He is author of Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe and coeditor (with Elspeth Kennedy) of The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context, and Translation, the latter also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
