num_pages: 340
description: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic BookArgues that the origins of courtliness lie in the German courts, their courtier class, and the education for court service in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
language: English
title: The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-121
titlecomplete: The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-121 (The Middle Ages Series)
genres: History
ratings_count: 13
publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press