Phase one: knighthood becoming chivalry
Richard W. Kaeuper
A thick European mist obscures the origins of chivalry, making close investigation difficult and hope certainty doubtful. An analysis seeking general patterns may even prove perilous, for landscape beneath is crisscrossed by deep furrows scholarly controversy, contested ground, still heavily mined, periodically swept erudite gunfire. If this chapter attempts some generalizations, it recognizes that many questions await further or at least willingness to observe truce.
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