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^For those of you interested in further insights (or so) in chivalresque vows and knightly life in the European Middle Ages, here you will find my last contribution on the subject, "Chivalry Vows". In it, I examine some of the political problems of the knightly vows taken in front of

^Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco, "Le sens du voeu dans les ordres chevaleresques européens du Moyen Âge", Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 16 (1996): 65-73. Click here to download a pdf version

^A litte while ago, I submitted an article to a very learned journal in my speciality. I must confess that I rarely do so, and that I should do it more often. It is not that I do not actually write articles. The problem is that once I have written

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^This is my presentation for the panel "'Foreign' influences in Spanish Medieval Literature", a session organized by Harvey L. Sharrer. My intervention explores how and why in 13th Century there were some movements to modify the Jongleurs activities and repertories in the process of construction of the monarchical political and

^Michel Garcia (ancien élève de l'ENS, Professeur à Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, ex-Président de la Société des Amis du Vieux Chinon) dwells in a sort of a phalanstère nearby Rabelais' homeland, in the Touraine He sometimes looks at the remnants of the castle