Holy warriors : the religious ideology of chivalry /
Kaeuper, Richard W.
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2009.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-317) and index.
Violent knights, holy knights -- 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.
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
Chivalry
Knights and knighthood
Chivalry in literature.
Civilization, Medieval.