Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Power of Giving
- 2 The Symbolic Constitution of the Giving Subject: William the Conqueror and Robert Guiscard
- 3 Violence and “Taking”: Towards a Generalized Symbolic Economy
- 4 Taking an Identity: The Poem of the Cid
- 5 The Sacred Kept
- 6 The Hero, Gratuity and Alterity: The Song Of Roland
- 7 The Supplemental Hero: Raoul of Cambrai
- 8 Female Integrity and Masculine Desires in The Nibelungenlied
- 9 Fractured Identities, and the Solution of Chivalry: William of Orange
- Conclusion: A New, Different Warrior Aristocracy
- Works Cited
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Power of Giving
- 2 The Symbolic Constitution of the Giving Subject: William the Conqueror and Robert Guiscard
- 3 Violence and “Taking”: Towards a Generalized Symbolic Economy
- 4 Taking an Identity: The Poem of the Cid
- 5 The Sacred Kept
- 6 The Hero, Gratuity and Alterity: The Song Of Roland
- 7 The Supplemental Hero: Raoul of Cambrai
- 8 Female Integrity and Masculine Desires in The Nibelungenlied
- 9 Fractured Identities, and the Solution of Chivalry: William of Orange
- Conclusion: A New, Different Warrior Aristocracy
- Works Cited
- Index
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- The Medieval Warrior AristocracyGifts, Violence, Performance, and the Sacred, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007