The Ten Commandments of the Code of Chivalry, Pt I
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Leon Gautier’s Chivalry: The Everyday Life of the Medieval Knight is a must-read for any student of the code. Winning lines seem to fly off Gautier’s pen in a hurry—gems like “Chivalry is the military form of the Christian profession: the knight is the Christian soldier” and “‘Fight, God is with you.’ Such, in a few words, was the whole formula of Christian courage.” It is not so much a history of the chivalry as a literary study of it: Gautier outlines the code through the
The Ten Commandments of the Code of Chivalry, Pt I
The Ten Commandments of the Code of Chivalry…
The Ten Commandments of the Code of Chivalry, Pt I
Leon Gautier’s Chivalry: The Everyday Life of the Medieval Knight is a must-read for any student of the code. Winning lines seem to fly off Gautier’s pen in a hurry—gems like “Chivalry is the military form of the Christian profession: the knight is the Christian soldier” and “‘Fight, God is with you.’ Such, in a few words, was the whole formula of Christian courage.” It is not so much a history of the chivalry as a literary study of it: Gautier outlines the code through the