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  • Pas d'armes and Late Medieval Chivalry: A Casebook

    Pas d'armes and Late Medieval Chivalry by Brown-Grant, Rosalind; Damen, Mario;

    A Casebook

    Series: Liverpool Historical Casebooks;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Liverpool University Press
    • Date of Publication 4 March 2025

    • ISBN 9781835537664
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages624 pages
    • Size 247x177x37 mm
    • Weight 1234 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 45 Illustrations, color; 3 Maps
    • 786

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    An Open Access edition will be available on publication thanks to generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council; the University of Leeds; Drury University; Northwestern University; the University of Neuchâtel; and the Fondation pour la Protection du Patrimoine Culturel, Historique et Artisanal (Switzerland).

    This Casebook features the work of an international, interdisciplinary research group entitled ?The Joust as Performance: Pas d?armes and Late Medieval Chivalry? and funded by the UK?s Arts and Humanities Research Council. Its focus is on the pas d?armes (English: ?passage of arms?), a highly ritualised form of tournament and elite entertainment that was popular principally in Anjou, the Burgundian lands, France and Iberia in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Part I of the volume provides a representative selection of sixteen translated and contextualised sources on the pas d?armes that includes narrative texts, administrative accounts and illuminated images. Part II, which comprises seven new scholarly essays on the pas d?armes, addresses the issue of how this type of tournament evolved through cultural transfer from court to court, offers in-depth analyses of a chronological and geographical range of pas d?armes from the perspective of text-image relations, heraldry, urban-court relations and manuscript commissioning, and focuses on broader themes such as the construction of masculinity and the representation of chivalric and non-chivalric bodies at these events. The Casebook also provides a map and table of all such tournaments known to have taken place between c. 1420 and c. 1520, some of which have been identified for the first time as pas d?armes, as well as a glossary of arms and armour, clothing and textiles typically featured at this type of event. It will be of interest to both specialist scholars and students of late medieval chivalric and tournament culture.

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    Table of Contents:

    Foreword and acknowledgements

    List of abbreviations

    List of contributors

    List of illustrations

    Introduction: Pas d?armes and Late Medieval Chivalry Rosalind Brown-Grant, Mario Damen and Catherine Blunk

    Note to the translations

    Part I: Sources

    Source 1: Le Roman de Ponthus et Sidoine (The Romance of Ponthus and Sidoine)

    Rosalind Brown-Grant and Christina Normore

    Source 2: The Paso de la Fuerte Ventura (Paso of the Daunting Adventure), Valladolid, 1428

    Mario Damen

    Source 3: The Paso de Valladolid (Paso of Valladolid), 1440

    Mario Damen

    Source 4: The Pas de l?Arbre Charlemagne (Pas of the Tree of Charlemagne), Marsannay-la-Côte, 1443

    Rosalind Brown-Grant

    Source 5: The Pas de la Joyeuse Garde/Pas de Saumur (Pas of the Joyous Guard/Pas of Saumur), 1446

    Catherine Blunk

    Source 6: The Pas de la Berg?re (Pas of the Shepherdess), Tarascon, 1449

    Rosalind Brown-Grant and Christina Normore

    Source 7: The Pas de la Fontaine des Pleurs (Pas of the Fountain of Tears), Chalon-sur-Saône, 1449?50

    Rosalind Brown-Grant

    Source 8: The Paso de El Pardo (Paso of El Pardo), 1459*

    Mario Damen

    Source 9: The Pas du Compagnon ? la Larme Blanche (Pas of the Companion of the White Teardrop), Le Quesnoy, 1458

    Klaus Oschema

    Source 10: The Paso de Jaén (Paso of Jaén), 1462

    Mario Damen

    Source 11a: The Pas du Perron Fée (Pas of the Enchanted Column) Bruges, 1463

    Michelle Szkilnik

    Source 11b: The Pas du Perron Fée (Pas of the Enchanted Column) Bruges, 1463

    Mario Damen

    Source 12: The Pas de l?Arbre d?Or (Pas of the Golden* Tree) Bruges, 1468

    Ralph Moffat

    Source 13: The Pas des armes de Sandricourt (Pas of Sandricourt), 1493

    Rosalind Brown-Grant

    Source 14: The Pas of Brussels, 1503

    Mario Damen

    Source 15: The Pas of Carignano, 1504 Thalia Brero and Rosalind Brown-Grant

    Source 16: The Emprise of the Wild Knight of the Black Lady, Edinburgh, 1507

    Alan V. Murray and Rosalind Brown-Grant

    Part II: Essays

    Essay 1: The Pas d?armes in Europe (15th?16th Centuries): The Transfer and Transformation of a Chivalric Event

    Thalia Brero, Mario Damen and Klaus Oschema

    Essay 2: The Relation du Pas de Saumur: Text, Image, and Context

    Anne D. Hedeman and Justin Sturgeon

    Essay 3: The Social and Literary Environment of a Chivalric Event: The Case of the Pas du Perron Fée, Bruges 1463

    Mario Damen and Michelle Szkilnik

    Essay 4: ?In the Way of the Knights-Errant?: The Sixteenth-Century Legacy of a Roleplay Game from the Pas des armes de Sandricourt (1493)

    Marina Viallon

    Essay 5: The Pas d?armes in Scotland: King James IV and the Tournaments of the Wild Knight of the Black Lady (1507?08)

    Alan V. Murray

    Essay 6: Pas d?armes and the Construction of Chivalric Masculinity: Ethics and Erotics of Knightly Combat

    Rosalind Brown-Grant

    Essay 7: Exceptional Bodies in the Relation du Pas de Saumur

    Christina Normore

    Glossary Ralph Moffat

    Bibliography

    Index

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