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Chivalry
-Knights were required to tell the truth at all times and always respect the honor of women.
-Knights not only vowed to protect the weak but also vowed to guard the honor of all other knights.
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-Knights not only had to be strong but were also extremely disciplined and were expected to use their power to protect the weak and defenseless.
-Knights vowed to be loyal, and generous.
-They always had to obey those who were placed in authority and were never allowed to refuse a challenge from another knight
-Knights lived by honor and for glory.
chivalry or the chivalric code is the traditional code of behavior for the knighthood class in medieval time period also known as the middle ages
-The Knight's Code of Chivalry was a system that went that all knights should protect others who can not protect themselves, such as widows, children, and old people.
-All knights needed to have the strength and skills to fight wars.
people are still wondering if chivalry is still alive and used today
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the medieval knightly class was amazing in the art of war, trained in fighting in armor, with horses, lances, swords and shields. to show courage, to be gallant and loyal and to swear off cowardice and baseness.
Related to chivalry was the practice of heraldry and its rules of displaying coats of arms. When not fighting, chivalric knights typically lived in a castle or fortified house, and some knights lived in the courts of kings, dukes and other great lords. The skills of the knights made into games such as the hunting and tournaments.
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Chivalry underwent a scientific study in the fourteenth century by Johan Huizinga, in which he gives a full chapter to "The idea of chivalry".
he said that "to be representative of true culture means to produce by conduct, by customs, by manners, by costume, by deportment, the illusion of a heroic being, full of dignity and honor, of wisdom, and, at all events, of courtesy. ...The dream of past perfection ennobles life and its forms, fills them with beauty and fashions them anew as forms of art".
There are a number of questions historians ask abought chivalry. The Broad-Stone of Honour, Kenelm Henry Digby offered the following definition: 'Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind which disposes men to heroic actions, and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world.'
It is still debated that noble knights in history such as Saladin, Godfrey of Bouillon, William Marshal and Bertrand du Guesclin set new standards of knightly behavior, or were examples of chivalry.
Another common debate is whether, the ranks of knights were open to anyone who had the physical requirements and skills to be a knight,