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Liam O. Purdon and Cindy L. Vitto, eds.
The Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideas of Order and their Decline.
Published Gainesville: Florida U.P., 1994.
ISBN 0813012813.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound; decorated boards, published without a dustjacket.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 155x233x30mm.
Page count: xxi,338pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the boards on this copy are slightly grubby, a little wear on the edges and corners; some dried binding glue on the page tops; remains of a circular sticker inside the back board, otherwise looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price $59.95]
Weight without packaging: 678g.

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Contents:
Vitto, Feudal relations & reason in Cleanness;
Pigg, Imagining feudalism in Piers Plowman;
Jost, Chaucer’s aristocrats & their linguistic superiority;
Purdon & Wasserman, Chivalry & feudal obligation in Barbour’s Bruce;
Ho, Women’s language in The Knight of the Tour d’Landry;
Orr, Rape prosecutions in the English Royal Courts of Justice, 1194-1222;
Cotton, Keeping faith & the varieties of feudalism in La Chanson de Roland;
Nicholas, Conflicts between lords & vassals in the Low Countries, 1127-1296;
Schwetman, Feudal chivalry in popular medieval battle poems;
Arthur, The Roman de Jaufre & the illusions of romance;
Roney, Fall from feudalism into individualism in the Canterbury Tales;
Laine, Tudor theories about the feudal age;
Chance, Afterword — chivalry & the other.

Illustrations: 14, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: 10
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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