HIST 398
SYLLABUS
WEEKLY DISCUSSION MATERIALS

Tuesday:

The Making of a Knight

Readings:

Gies and Gies, Life, Chap. 9 (pp. 166-185)

Fief ceremonies, 12th cent.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/feud-fief1.asp

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, “In Praise of the New Knighthood,” read editor’s note and Chapters 2 and 4
https://web.archive.org/web/20170414023957/http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/religion/monastic/bernard.html

Homage ceremony

Homage by Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth at her coronation (June 1953); homage by peers to George VI at his coronation (1937)

Dubbing a new knight (drawn by Matthew Paris, 1240-50)

Girding the new knight (Roland) with his sword (1240-50)

Buckling on the new knight’s spurs (Galahad) (1275-80); see also the knighting of Pyrrhus (Le Roman de Troie, BNF Fr. 782, fol. 161r), c. 1340-1350

Modern knighting:

In 1944, during World War II, King George VI visited the British Eighth Army in Italy and knighted General Oliver Leese

In 2010 Queen Elizabeth II knighted the actor Patrick Stewart

Tournament tents

Joust (13th cent.)

Tournament melée,  joust, and prize-giving, from the Manesse Codex (Zurich, 1305-40)

Arming the knight and joust, from the Luttrell Psalter (1330s)

Readings:

Peirce, “The Knight, His Arms and Armour”

Singman, Daily Life in Medieval Europe, pp. 119-126 (mid-page; notes on p. 138)

“Male clothing and knightly armor of the 1250s” (URL below; click on “next” in upper right corner of screen and read all 11 pages of this site)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060517022548/http://www.bumply.com:80/Medieval/clothing02.html

Click on the URL below to see a re-enactor manufacturing chain mail
http://www.liebaart.org/photo20.htm

Re-enactors of  c. 1300: look at the following photos to see how clothing and armor actually fit (URLs below)
http://www.liebaart.org/photo22.htm
http://www.liebaart.org/photo11.htm
http://www.liebaart.org/photo26.htm

Images:

Drawings of armed knights:
Kneeling knight and Richard Marshal unhorsing Baldwin of Guines, by Matthew Paris, c. 1250

French website showing original and reproduction arms and armor of mid 13 C.

Images from the Bayeux Tapestry (1070s?) and here:

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bayeux_tapestry/sect37_39.html

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bayeux_tapestry/sect40_42.html

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bayeux_tapestry/sect43_45.html

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bayeux_tapestry/sect46_48.html

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bayeux_tapestry/sect49_51.html

Images from the Maciejowski Bible (1234-44):

http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/images/maciejowski/leaf3/otm3rd.gif

details:
http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/images/maciejowski/leaf3/otm3vadetail1.gif

http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/images/maciejowski/leaf3/otm3vadetail2.gif

http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/images/maciejowski/leaf3/otm3vadetail3.gif

http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/images/maciejowski/leaf3/otm3vadetail4.gif

http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/images/maciejowski/leaf3/otm3vadetail5.gif

http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/images/maciejowski/leaf3/otm3vb.gif