The Nobleman as Knight and the Knight as Nobleman: The Evolving Relationship between Noble and Knightly Status in England and Italy and Their Social and Ideological Effects, 1272-ca. 1450

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Seigneurie: The International Society for the Study of the Nobility, Lordship, and Knighthood

Organizer Name

D'Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame/Univ. of Toronto

Presider Name

Shayna Devlin

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Guelph

Paper Title 1

Knightship and Countship in England under the Three Edwards: The Conferral of the Knightly Dignity on Counts or Earls, 1272-1377

Presenter 1 Name

D'Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton

Paper Title 2

"We were being mercilessly killed": Chivalry, Warfare, and Death in Trecento Naples

Presenter 2 Name

Tucker Million

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Rochester

Paper Title 3

The Remarkably Unsuccessful and yet Still "Knightly" Martial Career of Buonaccorso Pitti (d. 1432)

Presenter 3 Name

Peter W. Sposato

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Indiana Univ.-Kokomo

Start Date

11-5-2019 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 2345

Description

The session looks at the changing relationships between knightly status and ideals on one hand and and noble status and behavior on the other in the thirteenth though fifteenth centuries. The first paper does so through the lens of the practice of knighting members of the highest stratum of the nobility of England from 1272 to 1377, the second through that of works dealing with knightly violence in Naples in the fourteenth century, and the third through that of the knightly career of a Florentine nobleman in the early fifteenth century. D'Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton