by Jean Flori · Il Mulino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788815084651
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«La cavalleria medievale» is the historical essay by Jean Flori, published by Il Mulino in paperback (165 pages, in Italian).
Jean Flori analyzes the origin of knighthood around the year 1000 and its evolution from a warrior elite to a noble corporation with its own ethics and ideology. The work covers weaponry, tournaments and combat methods, as well as its links with the nobility and the Church, and shows how the chivalric ideal became legend.
This Italian edition of 2002 is the translation of the original work «La chevalerie» (1998) and bears number 414 in the Universale Paperbacks Il Mulino collection.
Jean Flori was a French medieval historian. He was a research director for the National Center for Scientific Research, and the author of books about chivalry and the Crusades. A student of Georges Duby, he is one of the twentieth century's "major historian[s] of chivalry".
