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Author: Christine Lambden Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0985701609 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Back in the 70's when Bonnie Pearce was a teenager and perky slogans abounded, she thought this was the dumbest one of all. Now, she's having a day that really does seem like the first day of the rest of her life. Fed up with her job and her arrogant boss, Bonnie has decided it's time for her to live happily ever after. She's chosen the small Texas town of Cambridge as the site of her newly rehabilitated life and, with the help of some new friends and her extremely involved family, she'll give it her best shot. Can a battle-hardened veteran of the technology wars slow down to the pace of a small-town factory? Or will the factory and the town have to change their pace to keep up with her? Cambridge Knights (in Shining Armor?) is the tale of what happens when a modern-day princess gets a good look at her knight in shining armor and starts to wonder if she was right to let him carry her away on his white horse.
Author: Christine Lambden Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0985701609 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Back in the 70's when Bonnie Pearce was a teenager and perky slogans abounded, she thought this was the dumbest one of all. Now, she's having a day that really does seem like the first day of the rest of her life. Fed up with her job and her arrogant boss, Bonnie has decided it's time for her to live happily ever after. She's chosen the small Texas town of Cambridge as the site of her newly rehabilitated life and, with the help of some new friends and her extremely involved family, she'll give it her best shot. Can a battle-hardened veteran of the technology wars slow down to the pace of a small-town factory? Or will the factory and the town have to change their pace to keep up with her? Cambridge Knights (in Shining Armor?) is the tale of what happens when a modern-day princess gets a good look at her knight in shining armor and starts to wonder if she was right to let him carry her away on his white horse.
Author: S. D. Church Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521553199 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 204
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If the medieval king was the helmsman of the ship of state, the royal household was the ship's engine. It comprised men from most ranks of society, from the great magnates of the realm to simple servants who looked after the day-to-day needs of the king and his court. English government, in both peace and war, was conducted through the royal household, amongst whom the most important men were the king's knights: socially elite, militarily pre-eminent, and indispensable for the workings of English medieval government. It is with these men during the reign of King John that this work is concerned.
Author: Sam Zeno Conedera Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 082326596X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 355
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“Warrior monks”—the misnomer for the Iberian military orders that emerged on the frontiers of Europe in the twelfth century—have long fascinated general readers and professional historians alike. Proposing “ecclesiastical knights” as a more accurate name and conceptual model—warriors animated by ideals and spiritual currents endorsed by the church hierarchy—author Sam Zeno Conedera presents a groundbreaking study of how these orders brought the seemingly incongruous combination of monastic devotion and the practice of warfare into a single way of life. Providing a detailed study of the military-religious vocation as it was lived out in the Orders of Santiago, Calatrava, and Alcantara in Leon-Castile during the first century, Ecclesiastical Knights provides a valuable window into medieval Iberia. Filling a gap in the historiography of the medieval military orders, Conedera defines, categorizes, and explains these orders, from their foundations until their spiritual decline in the early fourteenth century, arguing that that the best way to understand their spirituality is as a particular kind of consecrated knighthood. Because these Iberian military orders were belligerents in the Reconquest, Ecclesiastical Knights informs important discussions about the relations between Western Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages. Conedera examines how the military orders fit into the religious landscape of medieval Europe through the prism of knighthood, and how their unique conceptual character informed the orders and spiritual self-perception. The religious observances of all three orders were remarkably alike, except that the Cistercian-affiliated orders were more demanding and their members could not marry. Santiago, Calatrava, and Alcantara shared the same essential mission and purpose: the defense and expansion of Christendom understood as an act of charity, expressed primarily through fighting and secondarily through the care of the sick and the ransoming of captives. Their prayers were simple and their penances were aimed at knightly vices and the preservation of military discipline. Above all, the orders valued obedience. They never drank from the deep wellsprings of monasticism, nor were they ever meant to. Offering an entirely fresh perspective on two difficult and closely related problems concerning the military orders—namely, definition and spirituality—author Sam Zeno Conedera illuminates the religious life of the orders, previously eclipsed by their military activities.
Author: Gregory O'Malley Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 019925379X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 446
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The Knights of St John of Jerusalem, also known as the Hospitallers, were a military religious order, subject to monastic vows and discipline but devoted to the active defence of the Holy Land. After evacuating the Holy Land at the beginning of the fourteenth century, they occupied Rhodes, which they held into the sixteenth century, when their headquarters moved to Malta. Branches of the order existed throughout Europe, and it is the English branch in the fifteenth and sixteenthcenturies that is examined here.Among the major subjects researched by O'Malley are the recruitment of members of the Hospital and their family ties; the operation of the order's career structure; the administration of its estates; its provision of spiritual and charitable services; and the publicity and logistical support it provided for the holy war carried on by its headquarters against the Ottoman Turks. It is argued that the English Hospitallers in particular took their military and financial duties to the order veryseriously, making a major contribution to the Hospital's operations in the Mediterranean as a result. They were able to do so because they were wealthy, had close family and other ties with gentle and mercantile society, and above all because their activities had royal support. Where this was lacking orineffective, as in Ireland, the Hospital might become the plaything of local interests eager to exploit its estates, and its wider functions might be neglected. Consequently the heart of the book lies in an extended discussion of the relationship between senior Hospitaller officers and the governing authorities of Britain and Ireland. It is concluded that rulers were generally supportive of the order's activities, but within strict limits, particularly in matters concerning appointments, thesize of payments to the east, and the movement and foreign allegiances of senior brethren. When these limits were breached, or at times of political or religious sensitivity such as the 1460s and 1530s, the Hospital's personnel and estates would suffer.In addition, more general areas of historical debate are illuminated such as those concerning the relationship between late medieval societies and the religious orders; 'British' attitudes to Christendom and holy war, and the rights of rulers over their subjects. This is the first such book to be based on archival records in both Britain and Malta, and will make a major contribution to understanding the order's European network, its place in the ordering of Latin Christendom, and in particularits role in late medieval British and Irish society.
Author: Branko Vraneš Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3662619326 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 277
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According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the chivalric ideal merits no particular attention. Failing to become attuned to the real role of the chivalric ideal at the beginning of the era of the modern novel, commentators missed the chance to adequately review the role of chivalry at the end of that period. The modern novel did not only begin, but also ended with a travesty of the chivalric ideal. The deep need of a significant number of modernist writers to measure their own time according to the ideals of the high and late Middle Ages cannot, therefore, be explained by a set of literary-historical, spiritual-historical or social circumstances. The predilection of a range of twentieth century novelists for a distant feudal past suggests that there exists a fundamental poetic connection between the modern (or at least the modernist) novel and the ideals of chivalry.
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