Date of Award

4-1989

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Ronald Zupko

Abstract

There is nothing more uniquely medieval than the knight. Flails, swords, lances, barded horses, and tourneys are, to most, veritable symbols of all that the Middle Ages were. The historian, however, cannot afford to view the armored, mounted man-at-arms so simplisticly. In one sense, the knight was the centrifuge around which spun a society that glorified deeds of arms. In the modern world where soldiers serve approximately four years at a time, it is difficult to conceive of a era that could create a 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year fighting man; a man whose entire life was dedicated to combat.

Comments

An Essay Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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