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Medieval Online
www.medievalonline.com
Information about the origins of the knight and the code of chivalry:
facts, myths and analysis.
Backgrounds to Romance: Courtly love
http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/
engl513/courtly/courtly.htm
Overview of the concept and characteristics of medieval courtly love.
Chivalry
www.newadvent.org/cathen/
03691a.htm
A Christian view of the military, social and religious aspects of
chivalry that informed the behaviour of medieval knights.
NAReS
www.nares.org.uk
Website of the UK's National Association of Re-enactment Societies,
which include groups that re-create the world of medieval knights and
damsels.
Magna Carta
www.archives.gov/exhibits/
featured_documents/magna_carta/
translation.html
Full translation of the document that for the first time brought an English
monarch under the control of the law.
Books
The Book of the Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull
(Brockhampton Press, 1999) £7.99
Easy-to-read accounts of knights, their lives and their battles, with
many good illustrations.
Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe by Richard W Kaeuper
(Oxford University Press, 2001) £14.99
Examination of the role of chivalry in a period of violent disorder: was
it part of the solution or did it just contribute to the violence of the
era?
Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight by David Edge and John
Miles Paddock (Saturn Books, 1997) £7.99
An illustrated guide to medieval weapons and armour.
The World of the Medieval Knight by Christopher Gravett and Brett
Breckon (Hodder Wayland, 2001) £7.99
The world of the knight is brought to life through illustrations in this
children's book.
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