Hankins, James2011-12-202011-12-20Hankins, James. 2011. Civic knighthood in the Early Renaissance: Leonardo Bruni's De militia (ca. 1420). Working paper. Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:5473602Leonardo 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.en-USOther2011-12-20