. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. noble and knightly descendants of the Goths and Iberians, whosestruggle with the Arabs was one long tournament that lasted for morethan seven centuries (Fig. 116). In religious countries chivalry assumedmonastic characteristics ; among nations of a gay and lively disposition itverged on the voluptuous and licentious. Alphonso X., King of Leon andCastile, forced his subjects to submit to monkish regulations, and prescribedthe shape of their clothes as well as the manner in which they were to spendtheir time.
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. noble and knightly descendants of the Goths and Iberians, whosestruggle with the Arabs was one long tournament that lasted for morethan seven centuries (Fig. 116). In religious countries chivalry assumedmonastic characteristics ; among nations of a gay and lively disposition itverged on the voluptuous and licentious. Alphonso X., King of Leon andCastile, forced his subjects to submit to monkish regulations, and prescribedthe shape of their clothes as well as the manner in which they were to spendtheir time. In Provence, chivalry regarded unlawful love with an indulgenteye, and made a jest of marriage. Chivalry was in fact a fraternal association, or rather an enthusiasticcompact between men of feeling and courage, of delicacy and devotion; CHIVALRY. such at least was the noble aim it had in view, and which it constantlystrove to attain (Fig. 117). However praiseworthy its motives and intentions, chivalry was notfavourably regarded by everybody. In its feudal aspect it was displeasing. Fig. 116.—Sword of Isabella the Catholic. Upon the hilt is the following inscription, partly inSpanish and partly in Latin:—I am always desiring honour; now I am watching, peacebe with me (Deseo sienpre onera; nunc caveo, pax con migo).—From the ArmeriaReal of Madrid, a publication of M. Ach. Jubinals. to sovereigns, who constantly endeavoured to create beside it, and sometimesabove it, a nobility of the sword, an individual and personal rank that couldnot be handed down from father to son (Fig. 118). Thus Philippe le Bel,being in want of soldiers after the Flemings had destroyed his chivalry—thatis to say, his nobility—attempted immediately to replace it by ordering that CHIVALRY. the elder of two sons of a villain, and the two elder of three sons, should boadmitted into the order of knighthood. In this way Frederick Barbarossa
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