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Despite the great influence of White's book, his ideas of technological determinism were met with criticism in the following decades. It is agreed that cavalry replaced infantry in Carolingian France as the preferred mode of combat around the same time that feudalism emerged in that area, but whether this shift to cavalry was caused by the introduction of the stirrup is a contentious issue ...
Southern chivalry, or the Cavalier myth, was a popular concept describing the aristocratic honor culture of the Southern United States during the Antebellum, Civil War, and early Postbellum eras. The archetype of a Southern gentleman became popular as a chivalric ideal of the slaveowning planter class , emphasizing both familial and personal ...
An order of chivalry, order of knighthood, chivalric order, or equestrian order is an order of knights, [1] typically founded during or inspired by the original Catholic military orders of the Crusades (c. 1099–1291) and paired with medieval concepts of ideals of chivalry.
Farnworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, [2] 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Bolton, 4 miles south-west of Bury (7 km), and 8 miles (12.9 km) northwest of Manchester. Within the historic county of Lancashire, Farnworth lies on the River Irwell and River Croal.
Kenelm Henry Digby (c. 1797 – 1880) was an Anglo-Irish writer, whose reputation rests chiefly on his earliest publication, The Broad-Stone of Honour, or Rules for the Gentlemen of England (1822), which contains an exhaustive survey of medieval customs.
Ewart Oakeshott. Ronald Ewart Oakeshott (25 May 1916 – 30 September 2002) was a British illustrator, collector, and amateur historian who wrote prodigiously on medieval arms and armour.
Academy of the Sword, trans. John Michael Greer (Highland Park, TX: The Chivalry Bookshelf, 2006) de la Fontaine Verwey, Herman. "Gerard Thibault and his Academie de l'espée," Quaerendo VIII (1978) pp. 284–319; Castle, Egerton. Schools and masters of fence from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. (1885) p. 122.