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Forged in the Shadow of Mars
2022
Overview
In Forged in the Shadow of
Mars , Peter W. Sposato traces chivalry's
powerful influence on the mentalitè and behavior of a sizeable
segment of the elite in late medieval Florence. He finds
that the strenuous knights and men-at-arms of the Florentine
chivalric elite-a cultural community comprised of men from both
traditional and newly emerged elite lineages-embraced a chivalric
ideology that was fundamentally martial and violent. Chivalry
helped to shape a common identity among these men based on the
profession of arms and the ready use of violence against both their
peers and those they perceived to be their social inferiors. This
violence, often transgressive in nature, was not only crucial to
asserting and defending personal, familial, and corporate honor,
but was also inherently praiseworthy. In this way, Sposato
highlights the sharp differences between chivalry and the more
familiar civic ideology of the popolo grasso, the Florentine
mercantile and banking elite who came to dominate Florence
politically and economically during the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries.
As a result, in Forged in the Shadow of Mar s, Sposato
challenges the traditional scholarly view of chivalry as foreign to
the social and cultural landscape of Florence and contests its
reputation as a civilizing force. By reexamining the connection
between chivalric literature and actual practice and identity
formation among historical knights and men-at-arms, he likewise
provides an important corrective to assumptions about the nature of
elite violence and identity in medieval Italian cities.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Chivalry
/ Chivalry-Italy-Florence-History-To 1500
/ elite culture in late medieval Florence
/ Florence
/ HISTORY
/ history of violence in medieval/Renaissance Italy
/ Italy
/ Knights and knighthood-Italy-History
/ MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
/ To 1421
/ To 1500
/ Violence
ISBN
9781501761898, 1501761897, 1501761900, 9781501761904, 9781501761911, 1501761919
