Richard W. Kaeuper
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199244584
- eISBN:
- 9780191697388
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199244584.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter focuses on French chivalric literature. It describes the differences between Capetian and Plantagenet political culture. Chevalerie and royauté agreed on the inevitability, desirability, ...
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This chapter focuses on French chivalric literature. It describes the differences between Capetian and Plantagenet political culture. Chevalerie and royauté agreed on the inevitability, desirability, and importance of war. However, the relationship between the two was not the same everywhere. Monarchy in England and France followed different timetables. These differences shaped the interaction between kingship and chivalry in each realm.Less
This chapter focuses on French chivalric literature. It describes the differences between Capetian and Plantagenet political culture. Chevalerie and royauté agreed on the inevitability, desirability, and importance of war. However, the relationship between the two was not the same everywhere. Monarchy in England and France followed different timetables. These differences shaped the interaction between kingship and chivalry in each realm.
Richard W. Kaeuper
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199244584
- eISBN:
- 9780191697388
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199244584.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter discusses chanson de geste to demonstrate that the ambivalent role of chivalry in issue or order appears in entire works less than in passages selected from many works. It examines the ...
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This chapter discusses chanson de geste to demonstrate that the ambivalent role of chivalry in issue or order appears in entire works less than in passages selected from many works. It examines the role of literature in portraying the relationship of chivalry to Capetian royalty and to the reformed Church. It explores the three broad cycles of the corpus of chansons including the Cycle of the King, the Cycle of William of Orange, and the Cycle of the Barons in Revolt.Less
This chapter discusses chanson de geste to demonstrate that the ambivalent role of chivalry in issue or order appears in entire works less than in passages selected from many works. It examines the role of literature in portraying the relationship of chivalry to Capetian royalty and to the reformed Church. It explores the three broad cycles of the corpus of chansons including the Cycle of the King, the Cycle of William of Orange, and the Cycle of the Barons in Revolt.
Sara McDougall
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198785828
- eISBN:
- 9780191827631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198785828.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History, Cultural History
This chapter examines the succession in the Ottonian, Capetian, and Anglo-Saxon dynasties of the tenth and eleventh centuries. As it demonstrates, mothers and maternal lineage would play if anything ...
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This chapter examines the succession in the Ottonian, Capetian, and Anglo-Saxon dynasties of the tenth and eleventh centuries. As it demonstrates, mothers and maternal lineage would play if anything an even more decisive role in determining legitimacy of heirs to royal and noble titles than found with the Carolingians. The alleged evidence for the exclusion of those born outside of Church-sanctioned marriages in these centuries does not survive careful scrutiny. Certainly we can find practices that give the impression of efforts to obey Christian teachings on marriage. This is, however, a mistaken impression. What looks on the surface like evidence of the role of legitimate marriage in royal succession is in fact evidence of other concerns; concerns that reflect how often, and in what ways, powerful people in the Middle Ages valued their women, at least as transmitters of lineage.Less
This chapter examines the succession in the Ottonian, Capetian, and Anglo-Saxon dynasties of the tenth and eleventh centuries. As it demonstrates, mothers and maternal lineage would play if anything an even more decisive role in determining legitimacy of heirs to royal and noble titles than found with the Carolingians. The alleged evidence for the exclusion of those born outside of Church-sanctioned marriages in these centuries does not survive careful scrutiny. Certainly we can find practices that give the impression of efforts to obey Christian teachings on marriage. This is, however, a mistaken impression. What looks on the surface like evidence of the role of legitimate marriage in royal succession is in fact evidence of other concerns; concerns that reflect how often, and in what ways, powerful people in the Middle Ages valued their women, at least as transmitters of lineage.
