Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Chapter 1. Violent Knights, Holy Knights 1
4. Chapter 2. Two Model Knight/Authors as Guides 37
5. Chapter 3. The Religious Context for Chivalric Ideology 52
6. Chapter 4. Independence in Knightly Piety 66
7. Chapter 5. Knightly Ideology Developed and Disseminated 94
8. Chapter 6. The Hero and the Suffering Servant 116
9. Chapter 7. Knighthood and the New Lay Theology: Ordines and Labor 131
10. Chapter 8. Knighthood and the New Lay Theology: Confession and Penance 167
11. Chapter 9. Writing the Death Certificate for Chivalric Ideology 194
12. Notes 225
13. Bibliography 295
14. Index 319
15. Acknowledgments 329