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means A code of honorable conduct—courage, courtesy, loyalty, and protection of the weak—idealized as the proper behavior of a knight.
from From Old French 'chevalerie,' meaning knighthood or horsemanship, built on 'chevalier' (knight, horseman) from Late Latin 'caballarius,' a rider, from 'caballus,' a workhorse or nag. So the lofty ideal is rooted, quite literally, in a man on horseback—the medieval word for 'knight' was simply 'the guy with the horse.' The same Latin root gallops through 'cavalry,' 'cavalier,' and 'caballero,' all cousins descended from that humble plodding horse.
- origin
- From French cheval, horse — knights who could afford one
- the code
- Bravery, honor, and absolutely brutal cavalry charges
- courtly love
- Often meant pining for another man's wife
- contradiction
- Same knights sacked cities and slaughtered prisoners
- survives as
- Arguments about who holds the door
arthurian legend — king arthur's knights of the round table exemplified chivalric ideals in 5th-6th century britain, later romanticized in medieval literature
crusades — 1095-1291 religious military campaigns where crusader knights framed their wars as holy chivalric quests