March
18
/ 2018
The chivalry of a Medieval knight is indisputable, right? I mean, they had a Code of Chivalry and everything. But wait, not all knights were chivalrous, nor did they have a universally agreed upon idea of what chivalry meant. They didn’t even agree it was necessary to be chivalrous. And those codes? Well, they differed too. The knight is probably the first character most people call to mind when they think about the Middle Ages. One definition of a Medieval knight is that he was “a man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor”. Closely associated with this functional definition of a knight is the so-called ‘code of chivalry’. In essence, this ‘code’ dictates the
