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The Book of Chivalry is the most pragmatic of all surviving chivalric manuals. Written at the height of the Hundred Years War, it includes the essential commonplaces of knighthood in the mid-fourteenth century and gives a close-up view of what one knight in particular absorbed of the medieval... read more

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First Sentence

TO HIS CONTEMPORARIES Geoffroi de Charny was the quintessential knight of the age.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Richard W. Kaeuper (Author)

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  1. chivalry
  2. history
  3. knight
  4. medieval
  5. warfare 
 

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