Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

In this work, Maurice Keen explores why a host of men were accepted as entitled to coat armour because they were 'gentlemen', not because they were knights or o

Studies of the English gentleman have tended to focus mainly on the nineteenth century, encouraging the implicit assumption that this influential literary trope

Originally written for Debrett's Peerage, Douglas Sutherland's guide to that endangered species, the English Gentleman, was intended as an antidote to all the e

The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.

Explores why minor slights to certain kinds of gentlemen led to duels in order for honour to be satisfied, and how such ideas about honour changed over time.