We will investigate the extent to which chivalric ideas controlled or encouraged aristocratic violence; the relationship between violence and courtliness; the extent to which chivalry threatened or strengthened royal government; and the influence of courtly love on gender.
Outcomes: Familiarity with medieval ideas about acceptable forms of violence; understand long-term influence of medieval ideas about love, sexuality, and violence; how to read and interpret medieval literary and social texts.
Outcomes: Familiarity with medieval ideas about acceptable forms of violence; understand long-term influence of medieval ideas about love, sexuality, and violence; how to read and interpret medieval literary and social texts.