Today we travel back to the Middle Ages with A Knight's Tale! Join us for a discussion of The Black Prince, jousting tournaments, the extreme awfulness of the central love story, free companies, Chaucer, and more!

Sources:

Free Companies:

Maurice Keen, "The Hundred Years War," BBC 17 February 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/hundred_years_war_01.shtml

Percy, Sarah V. "This Gun's for Hire: A New Look at an Old Issue." International Journal 58, no. 4 (2003): 721-36. Accessed September 29, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40203894.

Marvin, Laurence W. "Atrocity and Massacre in the High and Late Middle Ages." In Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History, edited by Dwyer Philip G. and Ryan Lyndall, 50-62. Berghahn Books, 2012. Accessed September 29, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qcw1p.10. Justine Firnhaber-Baker, "Techniques of Seigneurial War in the Fourteenth Century," Journal of Medieval History 36:1 (March 2010): 90-103. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1016/j.jmedhist.2009.10.001 Cuvelier, and Nigel Bryant. "War in Normandy." In The Song of Bertrand Du Guesclin, 85-130. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY, USA: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Accessed September 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvd58s78.10.

Beauregard, Erving Edward, "The Free Companies in the hundred years' war," Masters Thesis (1944). https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1306

Jousting Audiences:

Murray, Alan V., and Karen Watts, eds. The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts and Pas D'Armes, 1100-1600. Boydell & Brewer, 2020. Accessed September 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv105bbwd.

BARBER, RICHARD. "Chivalry in the Tournament and Pas D’Armes." In A Companion to Chivalry, edited by JONES ROBERT W. and COSS PETER, 119-38. Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Accessed September 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvb937g7.12.

BENNETT, MATTHEW. "Manuals of Warfare and Chivalry." In A Companion to Chivalry, edited by JONES ROBERT W. and COSS PETER, 263-80. Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Accessed September 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvb937g7.18.

David Balfour, "The origins of the joust," Renaissance Magazine 18:1 (February-March 2013). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knight%27s_Tale

Mario Damen, "The town as a stage? Urban space and tournaments in late medieval Brussels," Urban History 43:1 (February 2016): 47-71. DOI:10.1017/S0963926814000790

Stephen H. Hardy, "The Medieval Tournament: A Functional Sport of the Upper Class," Journal of Sport History 1:2 (Fall 1974): 91-105.

Müller, Ulrich, and Franz Viktor Spechtler. "Ulrich Von Liechtenstein." In German Literature of the High Middle Ages, edited by Hasty Will, 235-41. Rochester, NY; Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2006. Accessed October 1, 2020. doi:10.7722/j.ctt81pf5.19.

ULRICH VON LICHTENSTEIN https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Codex_Manesse_Ulrich_von_Liechtenstein.jpg/800px-Codex_Manesse_Ulrich_von_Liechtenstein.jpg

JOAN OF ARC; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/17/france.alexduvalsmith

Edward the Black Prince:

"Was Edward the Black Prince Really a Nasty Piece of Work?" BBC News Magazine, available at https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28161434

Ivan Peter Shaw, "Edward the Black Prince," Brittanica, available at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-the-Black-Prince

The British Museum, Artifacts of Edward the Black Prince, available at https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG26213

Chaucer:

Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale. Translation available at https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/knights-tale-0

Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website, available at https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/brief-chronology-chaucers-life-and-times-0

Deposition of Geoffrey Chaucer, available at https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/deposition-geoffrey-chaucer-esquire-1386

Film Background:

IMDB Page, Knight's Tale: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183790/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Roger Ebert's Review of A Knight's Tale, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-knights-tale-2001