Noble Conduct in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Seigneurie: Group for the Study of the Nobility, Lordship, and Chivalry

Organizer Name

Donald F. Fleming

Organizer Affiliation

Hiram College

Presider Name

Janet M. Pope

Presider Affiliation

Hiram College

Paper Title 1

Reforming the Chivalric Elite in Duecento Florence: Brunetto Latini’s Il Tesoretto (The Little Treasure)

Presenter 1 Name

Peter W. Sposato

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Indiana Univ.-Kokomo

Paper Title 2

Conduct Literature in the Twelfth Century: A Problematical Genre in Changing Times

Presenter 2 Name

David Crouch

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Hull

Start Date

17-5-2015 10:30 AM

Session Location

Fetzer 2040

Description

Papers for this session deal with standards for aristocratic behavior advanced in prescriptive texts and the norms which nobles seem to have applied in 'real life," in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Donald Fleming