Interpreting warfare and knighthood in late medieval France : writers and their sources in the reign of king Charles VI (1380-1422)

buir.advisorLatimer, Paul
dc.contributor.authorÇeçen, Zeynep Kocabıyıkoğlu
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-08T18:15:04Z
dc.date.available2016-01-08T18:15:04Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionAnkara : The Department of History, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2012.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph. D.) -- Bilkent University, 2012.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references leaves 237-247.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis makes an analysis of different views on warfare and knighthood focusing on the late Middle Ages, though looking back to what came before, with an argument that a ‘new view’ was held by certain authors during the reign of Charles VI in France. This coincided with a certain phase of the Hundred Years’ War where the French were very conscious of their military failures. Medieval views on warfare and knighthood are examined under two basic categories: the view promoted through the romances to a lay audience, and the view developed by ecclesiastical authors, i.e. theologians, academics and canon-lawyers meant for a highly educated audience. While thesis shows that the ‘romance view’ perseveres into the early fifteenth century, it suggests a growing vogue for a ‘new view’ that is also adressed to a lay audience, but is closer to the ‘ecclesiastical view’ in many of its approaches. The new view is nevertheless different from the latter in certain respects, including the way it uses Ancient Roman sources on warfare, though these are also used to an extent in the ‘ecclesiastical view.’ It will illustrate this new view in the works of three authors residing in France at the time: Honoré Bouvet, Philippe de Mézières and Christine de Pizan. While evaluating these authors’ ideas on warfare and knighthood from the point of view of the contemporary military situation, the thesis will also briefly address their relevance to humanism.en_US
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dc.description.statementofresponsibilityÇeçen, Zeynep Kocabıyıkoğluen_US
dc.format.extentx, 247 leavesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/15214
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectKnighthooden_US
dc.subjectWarfareen_US
dc.subjectFranceen_US
dc.subjectHundred Years’ Waren_US
dc.subjectHonoré Bouveten_US
dc.subjectPhilippe de Mézièresen_US
dc.subjectChristine de Pizanen_US
dc.subjectRoman Worksen_US
dc.subjectVegetiusen_US
dc.subjectValerius Maximusen_US
dc.subjectFrontinusen_US
dc.subjectHumanismen_US
dc.subject.lccDC96.5 .C43 2012en_US
dc.subject.lcshKnights and knighthood--France.en_US
dc.subject.lcshHundred Years' War, 1339-1453--France.en_US
dc.subject.lcshChivalry--France--History.en_US
dc.subject.lcshWar and society--France--History.en_US
dc.titleInterpreting warfare and knighthood in late medieval France : writers and their sources in the reign of king Charles VI (1380-1422)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorBilkent University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)

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