Forged in the shadow of Mars chivalry and violence in late medieval Florence / Peter W. Sposato.

Contents Chivalry and Honor Violence -- Chivalry and Social Violence -- Brunetto Latini's Il Tesoretto : A Case Study in Chivalric Reform -- Chivalric Identity and the Profession of Arms -- Epilogue : The Chivalric Life of Buonaccorso Pitti (1354-1432).
Abstract "Challenges the current understanding of elite culture in late medieval Florence by arguing that chivalric ideology, traditionally considered by scholars to be foreign to the social and cultural landscape of late medieval Italian cities, played a major role in shaping the mentality and behavior of many Florentine elites, especially members of ancient lineages. This book offers the first examination of chivalric culture and its practitioners, who played an important but understudied role in the transformation of Florence into the dominant territorial state in north-central Italy"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Sposato, Peter. Forged in the shadow of Mars Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501761898
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