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The age of chivalry8/30/2023 “Ordinary women, shepherdesses, are just rather like for sport.” “There’s a lot of courtesy-you want to be able to speak well to ladies, defend ladies,” Wollock says. Yet even when knights did follow a code of chivalry as they understood it, these ideas about honor and good behavior focused mostly on concern for the noble class that knights were part of, often at the expense of the poor. That led some of them to question the slaughter of Muslims during the crusades. On the flip side, Wollock says, chivalric culture encouraged knights to develop their own sense of morality rather than simply relying on church authorities. The capture of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.įine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images A Code for the Noble Class Only
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