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41Chivalry — • Considered from three points of view: the military, the social, and the religious Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Chivalry Chivalry …
42Erec and Enide — by Chrétien de Troyes (ca. 1170) The first of five extant Arthurian ROMANCE poems by the French poet CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES, Erec and Enide is a sophisticated poetic narrative thought to be one of the earliest romances of Arthur in the courtly… …
43Yvain: The Knight of the Lion — by Chrétien de Troyes (ca. 1177) Yvain was probably the third of CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES’s five extant ROMANCES, written sometime before or after the author’s unfinished LANCELOT. Unlike the more complex and morally ambivalent CLIGÈS, in which… …
44Le Morte d'Arthur — The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (begun 1881), detail, by Edward Burne Jones (d. 1898), greatly influenced by Le Morte d Arthur throughout his career. Le Morte d Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for the death of Arthur …
45Bretonnia — s. BackgroundThe Land of Bretonnia is a feudal, traditional society where the peasants serve the knights in return for protection, while the knights are bound to militarily serve their lords in return for certain rights and titles. At the top of… …
46Historical European martial arts — Historical Fencing redirects here. For the history of fencing in general, see history of fencing. The first page of the Codex Wallerstein shows the typical arms of 15th century individual combat, including the longsword, roundel dagger, sword and …
47Being beautiful in spirit — according to some, is and was considered the highest of Knightly Virtues , and is said to be most akin to love for justice, and courage. This virtue is evidenced by hearing and obeying the Holy Spirit from a motivation of pure love, the Love of …
48Waster — Infobox Weapon name=Waster caption= From the left: arming sword, longsword, rondel, longsword, falchion. origin= Western Europe type= Practice Weapon is ranged= is bladed=yes is explosive= is artillery= is vehicle= is UK= service= Late Bronze Age …
49Oakeshott typology — Ewart Oakeshott s typology of the medieval sword is based on blade morphology. It categorizes swords into 13 main types labelled X to XXII. Ewart Oakeshott introduced it in his The Archeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age …
50French nobility — The nobility ( fr. la noblesse) in France, in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, had specific legal and financial rights, and prerogatives.The first official list of these prerogatives was established relatively late, under Louis XI of… …
