The everyday nationalism of workers: a social history of modern Belgium

Abstract

should now be read in conjunction with an associated article by Elizabeth Eva Leach: ‘The Provenance, Date and Patron of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308’, Speculum 97, no. 2 [2022]). The works by the knightly classes for the knightly classes offer the perspectives of the protagonists themselves; while one-sided and self-serving, they are at least a counterweight to ecclesiastical versions of what chivalry should be. They clearly illuminate the desired projected image of the chivalric elites while simultaneously offering not only fascinating details of their world, but also of the wars they fought in it.