What Are The Main Ideas Of The Code Of Chivalry?
FROM: Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivalry “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.” Chivalry can be classified into three basic but overlapping areas: • Duties to countrymen and fellow Christians: This contains virtues such as mercy, courage, valor, fairness, protection of the weak and the poor, and in the servant-hood of the knight to his lord. This also brings with it the idea of being willing to give one’s life for another; whether he would be giving his life for a poor man or his lord. • Duties to God: This would contain being faithful to God, protecting the innocent, being faithful to the church, being the champion of good against evil, being generous and obeying God above the feudal lord. • Duties to women: This is probably the most familiar aspect of chivalry. This would contain what is often called courtly love, t
