. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. alry, according to Chasles, whose ingeniousopinions we often borrow, expresses amixture of manners, of ideas, and ofcustoms peculiar to the Middle Agesof Europe, and to which no analogyis to be traced in the annals of thehuman race. The Eddas, Tacitus, and the Dano-Anglo-Saxon poems of Beowulf con-tain the only positive documents con-cerning the origin of chivalry. It reached its apogee rapidly after its birth,and gradually declined towards the close of the thirteenth century. Atthat period ladie
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. alry, according to Chasles, whose ingeniousopinions we often borrow, expresses amixture of manners, of ideas, and ofcustoms peculiar to the Middle Agesof Europe, and to which no analogyis to be traced in the annals of thehuman race. The Eddas, Tacitus, and the Dano-Anglo-Saxon poems of Beowulf con-tain the only positive documents con-cerning the origin of chivalry. It reached its apogee rapidly after its birth,and gradually declined towards the close of the thirteenth century. Atthat period ladies took a very prominent position; they armed the knights,conferred the order of knighthood, and bestowed the prizes of honour. Itwas under the influence of the ideas peculiar to this epoch that Dante wrotehis great poem, for the sole purpose, he said, of glorifying BeatricePortinari, a child of eleven years of age whom he had accidentally seenin a church. It was at this time that the Suabian knights, invaded bythe barbarous Hungarians, who were in the habit of slaying their enemies. CHIVALRY. 37 with their enormous bows and arrows, implored them, in the name ofthe ladies, to take sword in hand, in order to fight in a more civilised
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