Twelfth-Century Knights
13th-Century Knight (Crusader
Dubbing ceremony, ca. 1250Matthew Paris’s Chronicle
Dubbing ceremony, ca. 1450
Knighting Ceremony
Knights in battle (Maciejowski Bible, French, ca. 1250)
Siege and battle (Maciejowski Bible, French, c. 1250
Tournament 1233
14th-Century Tournaments
Tournaments (15th century)
Melee/Tournament, c. 1450
Courtliness in the Codex Manesse
• The Codex Manesse or Heiderberger Liederhandschrift is an illuminated manuscript copied in Zurich between 1305-1344 containing love songs by German troubadors (Minnesänger). Each of the 137 poets is portrayed as an idealized knight. The Codex Manesse is a picture book for fin amour and early fourteenth-century conceptions of courtliness
Fin amour
Poet offers song to his lady love
Hermann von Aue
Herr Rubin
Hilbaut Schwangau
Ladies at a tournament
Knights fighting with ladies watching
Ulrich von Singenberg: homage to ladies