"Chivalry and Courtesy: The Making of a Medieval Knight"
Dr. Francis K.H. So 蘇其康教授(中山大學)
I. Education:
a. etiquette of the court?useful to his lord in social & political contexts b. tactics of warfare c. virtue? courtly virtues, pleasing to his lady; Christian virtues II. Social Status:
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III. Activities:
a. joust--tournament, tilt, violence b. war; just war 1. legitimate ruler to declare or wage war 2. Just cause 3. belligerents have proper intention in mind c. feasts and entertainments-- 7 days celebration? revels d. trial by battle (English common law) 16 such trials in Morte Darthur e. adventures-- tests of knighthood IV. Privileged Orders
b. Templars (founded in 1118)--safeguard pilgrims to Jerusalem c. Order of the Garter (Edward III, 1344)--26 knights--charitable
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V. Relations— kings depend on his knights— body politic
VI. Castles VII. Obligations:
Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires,
A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man,
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