by Jean Flori · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420637273
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«La caballería» is the historical essay by Jean Flori, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
The book examines the institution of medieval chivalry: access to it, its nature and functioning, weapons and methods of combat, its role in war and tournaments, and its link with the nobility and the Church. It also addresses the conception of love in that sphere and how literature ended up turning the knight into a myth.
The work is part of the El Libro de Bolsillo - Historia collection from Alianza Editorial. Translation by Ángel Sánchez-Gijón Martínez.
Recommended for readers interested in the history and culture of the European Middle Ages.
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".
