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The Lettered Knight : Knowledge and aristocratic behaviour in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by Aurell, Martin;Khalifa, Jean-Charles;Price, Jeremy is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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The encounter between knight and science could seem a paradox. It is nonetheless related with the intellectual Renaissance of Twelfth-Century, an essential movement for Western history. The knight is not only fighting in battles, but also moving in sophisticated courts. He is interested on Latin classics and reading, and even on his own poetry. He supports "jongleurs" and minstrels and he likes to have literary conversations with clerics, who try to reform his behaviour, which is often brutal. T

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Author

Aurell, Martin;Khalifa, Jean-Charles;Price, Jeremy

Publisher

CEU Press, Central European University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9789633861059

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Sociology, History

Updated

2026-03-25