Order and Chivalry: Knighthood and Citizenship in Late Medieval Castile
ISBN: 9780812293449
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: History; Historical Periods; Medieval History;

Order and Chivalry explores the role of chivalry in the emergence of the bourgeoisie in fourteenth-century Castile. This book shows how the texts that shaped urban knighthood also transformed the middle class, the idea of the city, and the practice of citizenship in medieval Iberia.


Jesus D. Rodriguez-Velasco is Professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.
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