The Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideals of Order and Their Decline
- Author / Editor
- Purdon, Liam O., and Cindy L. Vitto, eds.
The Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideals of Order and Their Decline
- Published
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994.
- Physical Description
- xxi, 338 pp.
- Description
- Twelve essays examine the decline of the feudal ideal, an ideal that may never have existed in practice. Exploring interactions between literature and sociohistorical data, contributors outline various gaps between feudal ideals and realities: conflicting loyalities, power struggles, treachery, and the exclusion of women and other groups from feudal benefits. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Rusted Hauberk under Alternative Title.
- Contributor
- Vitto, Cindy L., ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.