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This original and authoritative text reveals how chivalry was part of the problem of violence in medieval Europe, not merely its solution. The ideal was to internalize restraint in knights, but a close reading of chivalric literature shows chivalry also praised heroic violence by knights. This... read more
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HALF a century after Twain's Connecticut Yankee appeared, Norbert Elias, a German sociologists, published Uber den Prozess der Zivilisation, a massive study of changing manners and of the 'civilizing process' in European history.
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- Richard W. Kaeuper (Author)
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