. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. ld enjoin. Theyoung squire was hencefortha In due time this youth, ifan eldest son, might hope toinherit his fathers castle. Ayounger son must turn adven-turer and try to win a vacantfief — or a rich heiress — bythe grace of some prince inwhose service he fought. Thetimes which were spent at thecastle without actual warlikeoccupation could be whiledaway by endless hunting, withdogs or hawks, with wild feasting (too often turning intobestial carousals), or with tournaments — , mock battles,in which the element of dea
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. ld enjoin. Theyoung squire was hencefortha In due time this youth, ifan eldest son, might hope toinherit his fathers castle. Ayounger son must turn adven-turer and try to win a vacantfief — or a rich heiress — bythe grace of some prince inwhose service he fought. Thetimes which were spent at thecastle without actual warlikeoccupation could be whiledaway by endless hunting, withdogs or hawks, with wild feasting (too often turning intobestial carousals), or with tournaments — , mock battles,in which the element of deadly risk was often great. Theaverage feudal seigneur had few enough quiet might make a winters evening endurable by playing chess,or listening to a minstrels tale of the great deeds of Roland 1 Knighthood was clearly at first only the public recognition that the youngnoble was now a full-fledged warrior. The idea of a religious ceremonial, chiv-alric vows and duties, an especial blessing by the Church, etc., all came in thelater Middle A HAWKING PARTY {From a thirteenth-century German man-uscript in the Heidelberg Library) i3o HISTORY OF EUROPE and Charlemagne ; but he was likely to find such diversionsweary The women of the castle were of like temper with the seigneurs dame had probably been married to him by herparents while a very young girl, with little heed paid to herown wishes. At times he might treat her almost as brutally ashe did his oafish serving-men; but she in turn would be ahardened, masterful woman, well able to chastise her dozensof slovenly weaving-women, and to command the castlegarrison when her lord was off on the foray. The age was astrenuous one, and few weaklings would be able to survive thephysical perils of childhood. 66. The relations of suzerain and vassal. Theoretically thefeudal system was a most humane arrangement between lord and man — of reciprocal loyalty and protection,sendee and reward. Actually it
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