Suggestions for research papers

Research Paper Topics:

Between the NU library, the Web, and my personal collection there are many primary sources in translation available that might make good research topics. There are also a number of historiographical topics for those who want to explore the current scholarly debates on chivalry and related topics.

Here is a partial list of possibilities.

Sources or Writers

1. St. Inglevert

2. Unconquered Knight

3. Song of Roland

4. Combat of the Thirty against Thirty

5. Chretien de Troyes Knight of the Cart

6. Duarte

7. Christine de Pisan

8. Bouvet

9. Castiglione

10. Gawain and the Green Knight

11. Chivalry and the early modern duel

12. Rene’s Book of the Tournament, Book of Love

13. Livonian Rhyme Chronicle (and Baltic Crusades)

14. Ramon Llull

15. Froissart and his audience

16. Walter Scott

17. Tirant lo Blanc

18. Knight of the Tower and Menagier de Paris

19. The Cid

20. Orlando Furioso

Historiographical Debates

21. Chivalry and courtliness

22. William Marshal

23. Feudalism and chivalry

24. Terry Jones and Chaucer’s Knight

Other Topics

25. Beowulf and chivalry

26. Elizabethan chivalry

27. Tournaments, jousting and a career at arms

28. Knights and government in England

29. Chivalry and Crusade

Topics requiring French

30. Le Tournoi de Chauvency

31. The Book of the Good Duke

32. Boucicaut