"Nobles, Knights and Men-At-Arms in the Middle Ages" is a collection of essays written by Mr. Keen over 30 years of his scholarly and professional careers. Covering such subjects as courtly love, Chaucer's Knight, and the practice of "brother-hoods in arms", just to name a few, Mr. Keen attempts to shed some light on some critical arguments pertaining to these issues.
Although I admire intensely Mr. Keen's passion, immense dedication, devotion to study and obvious knowledge on these subjects, I did not find this book very relevant to the military history genre. It tends to delve, in my opinion, more into medieval law studies and literature. Very dry and boring. There was one bright spot smack dab in the middle of the book. The chapter on Gadifer de la Salle was an attempt to highlight the career of a typical knight of the times who had achieved a bit more of his fair share of fortune, and failure.
Again, this book can be interesting, and I am glad it is now in my library, but I doubt I'll ever be pulling it down from the shelf to reference it anytime in the future. ( )