1st Edition

History Of Chivalry Vol I

By Charles Mills Copyright 2004
    438 Pages
    by Routledge

    438 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2005.  This definitive work contains a collection of texts written at the time when Chivalry was a living tradition spread across the whole of Europe. In it are fascinating accounts of Chivalry’s history and origins, the education of knights, chivalric love and the religious and military orders of knighthood. Nowhere else are the facts of Chivalry brough together so brilliantly.

    Chapter 1 The Origin and first Appearances of Chivalry in Europe; Chapter 2 The Education of a Knight. The Ceremonies of Inauguration and of Degradation; Chapter 3 The Equipment; Chapter 4 The Chivalric Character; Chapter 5 Dames and Damsels, and Lady-Love; Chapter 6 Tournaments and Jousts; Chapter 7 The Religious and Military Orders of Knighthood; Chapter 8 Progress of Chivalry in England;

    Biography

    Charles Mills was an historian and successful writer of the late nineteenth century.