Chivalry, in a Knight's Own Words

Geoffroi de Charny's Manual

Chivalry has its detractors. Of course there are the very boring objections that it’s sexist or patriarchal or retrograde or whatever. A more interesting claim is that chivalry was ackshually invented in later centuries and written back on to the Middle Ages by romantic revisionists. Taking it further, some say medieval knights were just blood-thirsty c…