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review Ð PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Ñ Geoffroi De Charny Geoffroi De Charny Ñ 5 Summary review A Knight's Own Book Of Chivalry Middle Ages On the great influence of a valiant lord The companions who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess become determined to attain this level of prowessOn the lady who sees her knight honored All of this makes the noble lady rejoice greatly within herself at the fact that she has set her mind and heart on loving and helping to make such a good knight or good man at armsOn the worthiest amusements The best pastime of all is to be often in good company far And they are dressed in such an indecent way that that which everyone ought to be most ashamed to show is what they show all the time to those who want to look for they cannot refrain from showing their backsides to whoever wants to see them This is not a Big 5 published handbook for modern day lifestyle tosh This is a direct view into the mind of a 14th century knight A real fucking knight Proper hardcore walking or riding about with a sword and dagger in real bloody shining armour knight And he s talking about big muscly burly men men showing their arses about It cannot get much betterAhemNow that s out of my system this small and entirely worthwhile read is an absolute must if you are interested in any tiny way about how the knightly class genuinely aspired to be Now it s important to remember that de Charny lived in an era uite different to our own and he was chosen to produce this work because he presumably lived up to practically every minute standard he lays in this work He s the epitome of ideal and so actually how most knights behaved on a daily basis was probably uite different and how much they revered themselves was probably far less subtle However de Charny seems to be very on board with how unknightly many of the men around him acted because he calls out all their wanton behaviour just as much as how incredibly noble many others were because he highlights all the good stuff He goes into great detail describing exactly what you should be doing to achieve glory through the chivalric code and the honour of God s approval In all honesty this guy sounds bloody awesome If there was a time travel fiction adventure where Geoffroi de Charny was brought into the 21st century he d probably piss every feminist in the world off for being so damn gentlemanly but if my time machine took me back to the 1300s if it wasn t the alternate universe where I got to be a knight myself which is the ideal scenario he d be the shootshagmarry option well at least in the alternate universe where I wasn t already wedded to The Black Prince before his dysentery or John of Gaunt before his possible venereal disease or Roger Mortimer before his mental breakdown In the gruesome and gruelling Middle Ages you d be wallowing in goods and glory with this guy s gold about your middle finger I d happily live in his castle and shoot off to all my friends about how amazing my knightly husband was Then wallow in our collective awesome when he gets stabbed to death at the Battle of Poitiers it s GLORY alright I d be forever Lady de Charny and live out my life as a proper powerful widow using all his glory to remind the world just how fucking ace my dead husband was and as such myself If I didn t die cruelly in childbirth first But you know nuanceSee if a book written 700 years ago can t inspire that kind of dreaming then there is no hope in the world is thereAs an aside there s actually a really nice little bio before the text proper I could see poor Sir Geoffroi s face vividly in the story when he possibly used guerilla ignoble tactics to attack Edward III s troops in France one day subseuently Edward III made a complete mockery of him in public gasp by calling him out of his underhand tactics Aw poor Geoffroi

review Ð PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Ñ Geoffroi De Charny Geoffroi De Charny Ñ 5 Summary review A Knight's Own Book Of Chivalry Middle Ages From unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can comeEnter the real world of knights and their code of ethics and behavior Read how an aspiring knight of the fourteenth century would conduct himself and learn what he would have needed to know when traveling fighting appearing in court and engaging fellow knightsComposed at the height of the Hundred Years War by Geoffroi de Charny one of the most respected knights of his age A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry was des This book is possibly the best introduction to chivalry one could ever have The author was an exemplary knight so he obviously knew his stuff I had a lot of fun reading it probably because I find the subject very interesting Geoffroi s fortitude and devotion become apparent almost immediately and I couldn t help but admire him

Geoffroi De Charny Ñ 5 Summary

review Ð PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Ñ Geoffroi De Charny Geoffroi De Charny Ñ 5 Summary review A Knight's Own Book Of Chivalry Middle Ages Igned as a guide for members of the Company of the Star an order created by Jean II of France in 1352 to rival the English Order of the GarterThis is the most authentic and complete manual on the day to day life of the knight that has survived the centuries and this edition contains a specially commissioned introduction from historian Richard W Kaeuper that gives the history of both the book and its author who among his other achievements was the original owner of the Shroud of Turin A must read for all men who wish to be men

• Paperback
• 128
• A Knight's Own Book Of Chivalry Middle Ages
• Geoffroi De Charny
• English
• 11 September 2018
• 9780812219098