The Book of Chivalry (French: Livre de chevalerie) was written by the knight Geoffroi de Charny (c.1306-1356) sometime around the early 1350s. The treatise...
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Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220. It is associated with the medieval...
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An order of chivalry, order of knighthood, chivalric order, or equestrian order is an order of knights, typically founded during or inspired by the original...
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Knight (redirect from Knighthood, Orders of)
considered a class of petty nobility. By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect...
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Geoffroi de Charny (category Year of birth uncertain)
France's counterpart to England's Order of the Garter. Although a prose treatise called the Book of Chivalry has also long been accredited to him, recent...
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Knightly Piety (category Chivalry)
of knightly piety, however it is apparent as an important part of the chivalric ethos based on its appearance within the Geoffroi de Charny's "Book of...
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Pentecostal Oath (category Knights of the Round Table)
which the Knights of King Arthur's Round Table swore, according to Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. It embodied the code of chivalry. In William Caxton's...
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Chivalry of a Failed Knight (Japanese: 落第騎士の英雄譚(キャバルリィ), Hepburn: Rakudai Kishi no Kyabaruryi, lit. "The Heroic Tales of the Failure Knight", also known...
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Don Quixote (redirect from The History of Don Quixote de le Mancha)
quixotic. Mark Twain referred to the book as having "swept the world's admiration for the mediaeval chivalry-silliness out of existence". It has been described...
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A Higher Call (redirect from A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II)
experiences. He describes the book title as "one man's humanity over his nationality". A Higher Call is a story about chivalry; it tells the story about Franz...
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