The Chivalrous Knight Appears in Romantic Fiction “You’ve got to find some way to get them to get along.”Ī maiden leads a knight in a suit of armor to a castle. “You’ve got all these people who are very prone to violence, heavily armed,” says Kelly Gibson, a medieval historian at the University of Dallas and editor of Vengeance in Medieval Europe. The most common values found in rules that commanders created for knights revolved around the practical needs of a military force: bravery in battle and loyalty to one’s lord and companions.
There was never a firm consensus on what it meant to be a good knight.
CHIVALRY MIDDLE AGES CODE
“What develops as you get into the late 11th, 12th century is a sense that knights have to have a professional code if they’re going to be respected and respectable.” “In the early Middle Ages, church councils were praying to be delivered from knights,” Wollock says. These warriors were commanded by warlords and rewarded with land, or with license to plunder the villages where they did battle, looting, raping and burning as they went.
He’s like a heavy tank.” Knights Were Heavily Armed and Prone to Violence “He’s a hired thug,” says Jennifer Goodman Wollock, a professor of medieval studies at Texas A&M University who has written two books about chivalry. In the middle of the 11th century, the knight was not a particularly honorable figure.
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