Introduction |
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The Renaissance of the twelfth century |
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3 | (2) |
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Scholasticism, reading, and writing |
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5 | (3) |
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8 | (5) |
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The lettered and the unlettered |
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13 | (3) |
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The cleric and the knight |
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16 | (13) |
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Courtesy and the civilisation of mores |
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29 | (6) |
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35 | (64) |
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Schooling and teaching children to read and write |
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39 | (29) |
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Sons faced with the choice of taking up arms or the calling of the cloister |
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41 | (3) |
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The first teachers: family, private tutors, and courtly clerics |
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44 | (6) |
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In the monastic, cathedral, and parish schools |
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50 | (5) |
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From cloister to secular life |
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55 | (3) |
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Italian precocity and pragmatic knowledge |
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58 | (4) |
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Methods of learning, new programmes and the spread of writing in the vernacular |
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62 | (6) |
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68 | (31) |
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The Latin skills of Anglo-Norman knights |
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69 | (8) |
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The Italian educated nobility |
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77 | (5) |
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82 | (8) |
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Book collectors and patrons |
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90 | (9) |
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Knighthood and Literary Creation |
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99 | (130) |
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The court and literary social life |
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102 | (43) |
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Castles transformed into palaces |
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103 | (1) |
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Halls, rooms, and gardens |
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104 | (4) |
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108 | (4) |
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Literature intended for performance |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (5) |
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Dancing, jeux partis, and dialogues |
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118 | (4) |
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Minstrels and professional performers |
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122 | (2) |
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124 | (3) |
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The dissemination of political songs |
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127 | (2) |
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Rivalry with the knights and clerics |
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129 | (6) |
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135 | (10) |
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145 | (39) |
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Songs: a preference for the brief genre |
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146 | (1) |
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The troubadours on love and war |
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147 | (8) |
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Northern trouveres and Germanic Minnesanger |
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155 | (2) |
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Romances, sagas, and other fictional genres: a rare form of writing |
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157 | (1) |
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The Grail, love, and war in French |
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158 | (3) |
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161 | (5) |
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Italy, compilers, and encyclopaedists |
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166 | (2) |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (2) |
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History and memory: telling the Crusade |
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171 | (1) |
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Overseas adventure in oc and oil |
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172 | (5) |
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The Catalan-Italian wars around the Mediterranean |
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177 | (7) |
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184 | (45) |
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184 | (1) |
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185 | (3) |
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188 | (5) |
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Disparate educational levels |
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193 | (3) |
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196 | (1) |
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The indispensable Psalter |
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197 | (8) |
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Receiving love poems and letters |
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205 | (3) |
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208 | (1) |
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209 | (5) |
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214 | (4) |
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Trobairitz, hagiographers, and visionaries |
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218 | (5) |
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The superiority of feminine knowledge? |
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223 | (6) |
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Clerical Instruction and Civilizing Knightly Mores |
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229 | (160) |
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War and the codifying of violence |
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236 | (45) |
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237 | (5) |
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Rebuking greed, violence, and vanity |
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242 | (1) |
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242 | (5) |
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Hunting, tournaments, and games |
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247 | (7) |
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254 | (1) |
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Warring under the king for peace and justice |
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254 | (3) |
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The knighthood and dubbing |
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257 | (6) |
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263 | (3) |
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The Crusade as armed pilgrimage |
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266 | (4) |
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The paradox of the soldier monks |
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270 | (5) |
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The internalisation of persuasive arguments? |
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275 | (6) |
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Manners: Mastering Movement And Speech |
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281 | (40) |
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284 | (5) |
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Instructional books on civility |
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289 | (3) |
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292 | (1) |
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293 | (3) |
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296 | (4) |
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300 | (6) |
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306 | (6) |
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The art of pleasant conversation |
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312 | (9) |
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Love: refinement and self-control |
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321 | (32) |
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The patient, enduring, and meek lover |
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321 | (6) |
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Perfecting oneself through love |
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327 | (6) |
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Classical knowledge and courtly love |
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333 | (9) |
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The debate on knights and clerks in love |
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342 | (11) |
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Religion: the warrior's piety |
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353 | (36) |
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The lettered knights and theological thought |
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354 | (3) |
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357 | (3) |
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Mass attendance and the dangers of Pharisaism |
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360 | (5) |
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Meditating at church, invoking the Holy Virgin, and other forms of devotion |
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365 | (4) |
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Love for fellow-men, alms, and voluntary poverty |
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369 | (4) |
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373 | (5) |
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378 | (4) |
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Individuation and nobility of the soul |
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382 | (7) |
Conclusion |
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389 | (12) |
Sources and bibliography |
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401 | (42) |
Index |
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