PROFESSOR NIGEL SAUL
Could you explain the concept and importance of chivalry?
The term ‘chivalry’ describes the code of behaviour of the European knightly and aristocratic class between roughly the end of the 11th century and beginning of the 16th. The term, a modern one, conceptualises a set of assumptions, mannerisms and actions which, insofar as they were ever referred to at the time, were associated with the word ‘chevallerie’. Both this word and the modern version of it have their origins in the French ‘chivaler’, meaning a knight, which in turn was derived from ‘cheval’, a horse. Chivalry was inseparably associated with
