HIS5081 CHIVALRY IN THE BRITISH ISLES
Drawing on writers like Sir Walter Scott and Alfred Tennyson, politicians like Benjamin Disraeli, educators like Thomas Arnold and Thomas Hughes, the pre-Raphaelite movement in art and the neo-Gothic revival in architecture, this course will examine the emergence of chivalry as an agent of aristocratic hegemony and the anchor of conservatism and tradition in political and culture life in the period between the American Revolution and World War I.