. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. HU19 T Fig. 117.—Chivalry represented by Allegorical Figures.—Fac-simile of a Copperplate in the Spanishtranslation of the Chevalier delibere of Olivier de la Marche: 4to, Salamanca, 1573. knighted peasants who had displayed personal bravery on the field ofbattle. As for the Church, it contented itself with warning the knights against CHIVALRY. r too bellicose a spirit, and with imbuing them as far as possible with thesentiments of Christian charity ; in fact, knights were frequently consideredto be a sp
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. HU19 T Fig. 117.—Chivalry represented by Allegorical Figures.—Fac-simile of a Copperplate in the Spanishtranslation of the Chevalier delibere of Olivier de la Marche: 4to, Salamanca, 1573. knighted peasants who had displayed personal bravery on the field ofbattle. As for the Church, it contented itself with warning the knights against CHIVALRY. r too bellicose a spirit, and with imbuing them as far as possible with thesentiments of Christian charity ; in fact, knights were frequently consideredto be a species of Levite. There was, says the Ordene de Chevalerie * a great resemblance between the duties of a knight and those of a. Fig. 118.—Conferring Knighthood on the Field of Battle.—Eomance of Lancelot du Lac, aManuscript in the National Library of Paris (Thirteenth Century). priest. Thence the reason that the priest was the hero of the faith,and the knight the pontiff of true honour. Thence the name of ordene,or ordination, given to the investiture of knighthood. In the sixteenthcentury, the Spanish knight Don Ignatio de Loyola, who became so famousas the founder of the Order of the Jesuits, made himself a knight of theVirgin, and solemnised his entrance into Gods service, according to ancient * The investiture of knighthood. 142 CHIVALRY. custom, by keeping the veillee des armes* before the sacred image of themother of Christ. The Church, although it seeks to maintain peace and has a horror ofbloodshed, has never forbidden legitimate wars, and thus good King St. Louisnever shrank on the field of battle from driving his sword up to the very-hilt into his enemys heart. And the Church, whilst approving of
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