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title: "The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context, and Translation (The Middle Ages Series)"
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price: "10262 som"
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# The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context, and Translation (The Middle Ages Series)

**Brand:** richard w. kaeuper
**Price:** 10262 som
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great read
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2020*

Superbly wonderful

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    What Chivalry really was
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2015*

Most books on Chivalry either ridicule it, mythologize it, or sentimentalize it.  This book does none of these.  It was written by a famous French knight who lived it and died it.The long introduction by the editors/translators provides a brief biography of the author, some historical perspective, and convincing speculation on the motivations of its author.  "The Book of Chivalry" is de Charny's attempt to improve the quantity and quality of the French warrior classes in a time of crisis.  As a member of the knightly elite, as an "insider", he had to play a double game; reform the system without criticizing it too harshly.  De Charny's ethic is inclusive of poorer warriors, warriors with shady reputations, but is particularly critical of the spendthrift wealthier knights who spent more money and time on jewelry, lodging, gambling, leisure, and fashion rather than on weapons, training, and religious faith.  There is almost nothing on stereotypical chivalry concerning the treatment of women.Ultimately, this attempt at reforming chivalry was a failure.  After the bulk of the French army fled, de Charny was killed in battle at Poitiers while holding the Oriflamme.  Chivalry and the "Preudhomme" entered myth.The book reveals other interesting aspects of the medieval French warrior mindset.  Although immersed in it all his life, De Charny completely ignores the technology and politics of war.  He attaches little importance to the achievement of anything other than a good personal reputation as a "preudhomme", or "Man of Worth".  He is completely immune from the modern obsessions with justice, victory, security, or wealth.  His sense of the ideal warrior would be a deeply pious man who singlemindedly studies and practices the profession of arms from the earliest age, sticks with it through the best and worst times, and gives little time or thought to anything else other than God.  But the ideal is not a standard.

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    The book on chivalry
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2017*

The book on chivalry, for those of us who practice it.  Thanks, Prof. Kaeuper.

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