A significant contribution to the history of the political life and culture of the later medieval aristocracy. MAURICE KEEN Orders of lay knights - the most fam

`Sheds considerable new light on the nature, development and functions of the orders in a key phase of their history, and goes a long way to explaining how such

This book introduces the beginnings of the orders of knighthood in the early years of warriors on horses and the origins of chivalry, and then investigates in t

Ritual as a strategy for chivalric creation -- Poetics of fraternity -- The presence of the confraternity -- The order of the sash -- Rewriting the order -- Poe