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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 is intended to explain the appropriate qualities for a knight, reform the behavior of the fighting classes, and defend the chivalric ethos against its critics, mainly in clerical circles.

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Book of Chivalry

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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

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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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Order of chivalry

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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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Geoffroi de Charny

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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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Knight

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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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Knightly Piety

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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

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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

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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

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to the book as having "swept the world's admiration for the mediaeval chivalry-silliness out of existence". For Cervantes and the readers of his day...

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List of Crusades

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The Crusade of Humbert of Viennois, 1345-1347. pp. 193-195. Kaeuper, R. W., Charny, G. de., Kennedy, E. (1996). The book of chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny:...

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Battle of Calais

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authoritative books on chivalry. Two years later, having been ransomed from English captivity, Charny was placed in charge of a French army on the Calais...

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Battle of Poitiers

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Kennedy, Elspeth (1996). The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context, and Translation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3348-3...

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A Higher Call

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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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History of Ghana

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Function for Which Rulers Were Created", A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 76–79, 2005, doi:10.9783/9780812208689...

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Ultima Online expansions

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character class consists mainly of the new Chivalry skill. If used in conjunction with a "Book of Chivalry", a Paladin using the skill can perform powerful...

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Chivalric romance

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As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern...

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Spanish chivalry

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territories), chivalric ideals and institutions would be adopted and exercised with more fervour than anywhere else. Chivalry, or chivalric codes of manners...

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List of late medieval works on the Crusades

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de Cauayleria (1279–1283). Lull's account of the order of chivalry is translated to The book of the Ordre of chyualry, by English writer William Caxton...

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Fount of honour

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of chivalry on other persons. During the High Middle Ages, European knights were essentially armoured, mounted warriors. In feudalism, by virtue of its...

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Modern Chivalry

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Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Regan, His servant is a rambling, satirical American novel by Hugh Henry...

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Christine de Pizan

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published the manual on chivalry, entitled Livre des fais d'armes et de chevalerie (The Book of Feats of Arms and of Chivalry). In early 1411, Christine...

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Chivalry Bookshelf

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Journal of Chivalry and The Book of the Tournament as well as modernized English translations of Ramon Lull's Book of Knighthood & Chivalry and the Ordène...

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Nancy MacLean

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MacLean's doctoral thesis later became her first book, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994). From 1989 to 2010,...

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