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Kaeuper, Richard W.
    Holy warriors : the religious ideology of chivalry / Richard W. Kaeuper.
        p. cm.—(The Middle Ages series)
    ISBN 978-0-8122-4167-9 (alk. paper)
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    1. Chivalry—Religious aspects. 2. Chivalry—Europe—History—To 1500. 3. Knights and knighthood—Europe—History—To 1500. 4. Chivalry in literature. 5. Civilization, Medieval. 6. Europe—Church history—600–1500. I. Title.
CR4519.K347      2009
940.1—dc22                                                          2009004274

Frontispiece: An illustration of idealized knighthood in a righteous struggle against sin and vice. From a thirteenth-century treatise on virtues and vices by William of Peraldus, Summa de vitiis. British Library Harley Manuscript 3244, folios 27b, 28. Copyright © British Library.