Dewey Reference Report 900s

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Dewey Reference Report 900s

• Jayne Ahrens
• LIBR 150 - Week 10
• Winter 2003
• Call Number 940.1 UDEN

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Bibliographic Citation

• Grant Uden
• A Dictionary of Chivalry
• New York, NY
• Thomas Y. Crowell Publishing Co.
• 1968

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Arrangement Indexing

• Arranged alphabetically
• Theres a subject index with main subject
  headings pertaining to things associated with
  knights and heraldry. Example Armour, listing
  different types and styles of armour Arms,
  listing weaponry Flags and Banners Castles
  Knighthood Legends and so on.

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Scope Currency

• This is a book about the life and times of
  knights, with over a thousand entries. It covers
  the education and training of young men into
  knighthood, including the codes they lived by,
  armour and weaponry, battles, horses, activities,
  legends and stories.
• Currency isnt relevant to the subject.

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Purpose

• The purpose of The Dictionary of Chivalry is to
  educate anyone interested, in the history of
  knights and chivalry (the medieval system of
  knighthood) from the 12th through the 15th
  centuries.

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Physical Format Special Features

• Format Book - Hardbound (Out of Print)
• Special Features
• Drawings (line and color) accompanying many
  entries
• An extensive index of subjects with
  sub-categories
• Cross-referencing

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Authority, Credentials Reviews

• Author Grant Uden
• The late Grant Uden had a varied career as a
  lecturer in history, teacher, author and head of
  a rare books and manuscripts department. He had
  a strong interest in British chivalry and the
  Middle Ages. Uden was a lifelong collector of
  early books, historical documents and pictures -
  valuable sources for the books hes written on
  literary and historical subjects.

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Personal Impression

• This is an interesting and detailed book on
  knights and chivalry. Straightforward - a good
  book for people 12 years and up. The author
  really seemed to have a passion for the subject
  matter.

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Reference Use Examples

• What is the Code of Chivalry?
• I found the Code of Chivalry on a Web Page about
  chivalry and courtly love. (On next slide.)
• http//www.astro.umd.edu/marshall/chivalry.htm
• Who were the Free Companies?
• According to a Web Page about Free Companies, the
  Oxford American Dictionary defines free
  companies as "professional soldiers serving a
  foreign country."  These professional, paid
  troops became a popular practice throughout
  Europe in the 14th century.  Both Knights and
  commoners under arms were eager to take the money
  of anyone wishing to raise an army.
• http//faculty.smu.edu/bwheeler/Ency/freecompanies
  .html

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The Ten Commandments of the Code of Chivalry

• I. Thou shalt believe all that the Church
  teaches, and shalt observe all its directions.
• II. Thou shalt defend the Church.
• III. Thou shalt repect all weaknesses, and shalt
  constitute thyself the defender of them.
• IV. Thou shalt love the country in the which thou
  wast born.
• V. Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy.
• VI. Thou shalt make war against the Infidel
  without cessation, and without mercy.
• VII. Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal
  duties, if they be not contrary to the laws of
  God.
• VIII. Thou shalt never lie, and shall remain
  faithful to thy pledged word.
• IX. Thou shalt be generous, and give largess to
  everyone.
• X. Thou shalt be everywhere and always the
  champion of the Right and the Good against
  Injustice and Evil.