Publication: Civic Knighthood in the Early Renaissance: Leonardo Bruni's De militia (ca. 1420)
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2011-12-20
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Hankins, James. 2011. Civic knighthood in the Early Renaissance: Leonardo Bruni's De militia (ca. 1420). Working paper. Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
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Leonardo Bruni's aim in the De militia (ca. 1420) was to co-opt the most glamorous of medieval ideals, the ideal of chivalry, and to reinterpret it in terms of Greco-Roman ideals of military service. In so doing he aimed to make the reform of knighthood in Renaissance Florence into an aspect of the revival of antiquity.
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