Books by Craig M Nakashian
The volume is a schema of articles, structured around three salient concerns of medieval society:... more The volume is a schema of articles, structured around three salient concerns of medieval society: knightly prowess and violence, lay and religious piety, and public order and government. Recent scholarship has increasingly emphasized the importance of studying intersections and inter-connections while reconstructing how medieval societies conceived of “right order.” This book reflects the importance of this approach in its contents and thematic presentation. The medieval view of "right order" was overwhelmingly concerned with the issues given in the title: of prowess (violence, feud, chivalry, masculinity, memory, honor, and fame), of piety (belief and practice, saints, sin, and redemption, ceremony and ritual), and of public order (law, governance, justice, kingship, literary discourses on identity and power, language and meaning). Each of these themes has been explored and expanded by the work of Richard W. Kaeuper, most directly in three of his monographs- War, Justice, and Public Order (Oxford, 1988), Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford, 1999), and Holy Warriors (Penn, 2009). Throughout his career, Richard Kaeuper has approached historical questions with an eye towards illuminating the inherent complexities in human ideas and ideals. He has worked to untangle the various threads holding together cultural constructs such as chivalry, licit violence, and lay piety. He has done this by examining a wide range of historical evidence, including art and literature, as a way of more completely understanding how societies created themselves. The present volume builds off of the work that Kaeuper has done in a way that contains the most recent scholarship on these interconnected themes.
The volume is a schema of articles, structured around three salient concerns of medieval society:... more The volume is a schema of articles, structured around three salient concerns of medieval society: knightly prowess and violence, lay and religious piety, and public order and government. Recent scholarship has increasingly emphasized the importance of studying intersections and inter-connections while reconstructing how medieval societies conceived of “right order.” This book reflects the importance of this approach in its contents and thematic presentation. The medieval view of "right order" was overwhelmingly concerned with the issues given in the title: of prowess (violence, feud, chivalry, masculinity, memory, honor, and fame), of piety (belief and practice, saints, sin, and redemption, ceremony and ritual), and of public order (law, governance, justice, kingship, literary discourses on identity and power, language and meaning). Each of these themes has been explored and expanded by the work of Richard W. Kaeuper, most directly in three of his monographs- War, Justice, and Public Order (Oxford, 1988), Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford, 1999), and Holy Warriors (Penn, 2009). Throughout his career, Richard Kaeuper has approached historical questions with an eye towards illuminating the inherent complexities in human ideas and ideals. He has worked to untangle the various threads holding together cultural constructs such as chivalry, licit violence, and lay piety. He has done this by examining a wide range of historical evidence, including art and literature, as a way of more completely understanding how societies created themselves. The present volume builds off of the work that Kaeuper has done in a way that contains the most recent scholarship on these interconnected themes.
Articles by Craig M Nakashian
Journal of Medieval Military History, 2014
Ecclesia et Violentia, eds. Radoslaw Kotecki and Jacek Maciejewski, 2014
Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006
Between Sword and Prayer: Warfare and Medieval Clergy in Cultural Perspective, eds. Radoslaw Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski, and John Ott , 2017
Book Reviews by Craig M Nakashian
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 184pp. $99.95. ISBN 9780754663195 Professor Thomas Madden oversees anot... more Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 184pp. $99.95. ISBN 9780754663195 Professor Thomas Madden oversees another admirable contribution to the study of the crusades, and specifically the 4th crusade, in this compilation of papers from the sixth conference of the society for the study of the crusades and the Latin east held in Istanbul in August of 2004. With numerous papers to choose from, Professor Madden assembled a thematic crosssection of the most recent research into this perennially fascinating topic. He arranges the book into three broad sections entitled "Event", "Aftermath", and "Perceptions" in order to reflect current trends in the historiography of this seminal event
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Books by Craig M Nakashian
Articles by Craig M Nakashian
Book Reviews by Craig M Nakashian