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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 ...
Chivalry as a code, as indicated by the concepts of courtly love and the quality of Domnei, necessitated in theory as in practice a level of devotion to the lady, or high mistress, that went beyond mere professionalism and graciousness in etiquette. Truth and honesty were core virtues, and therefore, a knight's actions were to stem from ...
The Reign of Chivalry. Bouchard, Constance Brittain (1998). Strong of Body, Brave and Noble: Chivalry and Society in Medieval France. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-8548-7. Crouch, David (2019). The Chivalric Turn: Conduct and Hegemony in Europe before 1300. Oxford University Press. Davis, Alex (2004). Chivalry and Romance in the English ...
During the 19th Century the slaveowning planter class of the South would codify their concepts of honor and gallantry under the code of Southern chivalry, depicting the rich and sophisticated Southern gentleman as a knightly Cavalier with a paternal responsibility towards those subservient to him. [5] [6]
Title page of an Amadís de Gaula romance of 1533. A knight-errant [1] (or knight errant [2]) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature.The adjective errant (meaning "wandering, roving") indicates how the knight-errant would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric virtues, either in knightly duels (pas d'armes) or in some other pursuit of courtly love.
Teske's most famous pupil was Immanuel Kant, whom he accompanied as a mentor in acquiring a master's degree and assisted in his script on the fire (de igne). [2] Teske, who was the first physicist at the University of Königsberg, was involved in the study of electricity. He also participated in the organizational tasks of Königsberg University.
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.