Interpreting warfare and knighthood in late medieval France : writers and their sources in the reign of king Charles VI (1380-1422)
buir.advisor | Latimer, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Çeçen, Zeynep Kocabıyıkoğlu | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-08T18:15:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-01-08T18:15:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.description | Ankara : The Department of History, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2012. | en_US |
dc.description | Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Bilkent University, 2012. | en_US |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references leaves 237-247. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.statementofresponsibility | Çeçen, Zeynep Kocabıyıkoğlu | en_US |
dc.format.extent | x, 247 leaves | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/15214 | |
dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
dc.subject | Knighthood | en_US |
dc.subject | Warfare | en_US |
dc.subject | France | en_US |
dc.subject | Hundred Years’ War | en_US |
dc.subject | Honoré Bouvet | en_US |
dc.subject | Philippe de Mézières | en_US |
dc.subject | Christine de Pizan | en_US |
dc.subject | Roman Works | en_US |
dc.subject | Vegetius | en_US |
dc.subject | Valerius Maximus | en_US |
dc.subject | Frontinus | en_US |
dc.subject | Humanism | en_US |
dc.subject.lcc | DC96.5 .C43 2012 | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Knights and knighthood--France. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453--France. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Chivalry--France--History. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | War and society--France--History. | en_US |
dc.title | Interpreting warfare and knighthood in late medieval France : writers and their sources in the reign of king Charles VI (1380-1422) | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
thesis.degree.discipline | History | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Bilkent University | |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) |
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