Medieval Chivalry, Explained

Chivalry’s just common sense isn’t it? 🤷‍♂️

The tale of Tristan is a perfect example of courtly love, a Cathar passion ( suffering love) with the sword laying between Tristan and Isolde in dictating that it was not a real love for a human being but a suffering love (passion, la passion Tristan in french, Tristan is Tan Trist in reverse, which means " very sad" in french) for Our Lady the Cathar Church.

Courtly love came from the Cathars. It was a disguised love for Our Lady (the Church of the Cathars) thus ....a non sexual love. For the Cathars , ROMA was the opposite of AMOR ( love and Rome, the Catholic church in reverse).

The knights just borrowed it from the Cathars.

The chivalry code was born in the south west of France when the dukes of Aquitaine and Count of Toulouse turned Cathars. This is where the love passion ( suffering) and the courtly love came from. The perfect example of the passion ( word still used today to describe an absolute unexplained love for someone) is the tale of Tristan and Isolde.

Very informative and thank you for sharing ❤

Poor French Knights.

And we know what the non-mutual and incorrect form of Chivalry is called...it's called Simping, No one ultimately wins with Simping...

Modern chivalry is problematic, giving females this false sense of entitlement; thinking that a man has to hold a door open for them every where they go and letting them go first in a queue, etc. Why are females so entitled like this? 🤔

get your fackts rigth. charlamagen had all thes rulls for the knigt. rome had for the knigths

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Underrated Channel this is. Very nice.

Whatever modern chivalry has been reduced to, it backfired in all ways in the romantic sense to women. Women respond well to chaos. Unfortunately if you treat her like a queen,she will treat you like a peasant.

Let that simmer in your spirit.

Chivalry died and was replaced by toxic masculinity.

Good stuff, congratulations! However, I have to point out, that the chivalric romances was originated not in the 14th but far earlier in the 12th century. Chrétien de Troyes was the most famous and talented author of the arthurian romances (Lancelot, Perceval etc) he wrote his works between 1150-1190.

To me, Chivalry means the following things

Safeguarding the helpless

Honoring those we love

Refraining from wanton (or unprovoked) offense

Exercising moral values in all that you do, be it in war or at home

Having an uncompromising sense of morality, no matter what

These are far more important than holding doors open for others, buying dinner for your love or placing one's coat over a puddle to help them across

The "modern" idea of buying the woman's meal as chivalry is amusing since "treating" a woman comes from the "charity girls" of the 1890s to 1910s. (working class shop girls in the big city who "dated" men for nights out on the town). These girls distinguished themselves from those women who took cash. This practice moved into the middle class (in the US) in the 1920s.

Excellent videos but the narrator should be wearing a man's shirt!

Was the "chivalric code" taken seriously? I think a good comparison would be our modern notions of "human rights". Do we actually believe in that, or is it just a romantic and idealised story that we tell ourselves? Certainly, we still have war crimes today despite the Geneva Conventions; but all things considered, we are doing much better than we used to before we had them. The civilising effect is there; it's just imperfect.

The Chivalric Code was most likely very similar to Bushido, & served the same purpose for society as a whole.

When you teach a person violence, they tend to be violent, even when in normal life when violence is not needed and not at all appropriate. Too bad there is no chivalric rule taught to those in violent occupations. Statistically, normal life becomes difficult for many of those engaged in those occupations.

I giggled unreasonably long at the image of knights toilet papering someone's manor.

So it’s just simping?

I wouldn't call this video correct, especially with the conclusion he gave as if chivalry was something most (more than 50%)of all knights or nobility that would fight. You have cases where at time chivalry is thought to be at its height. 1386 Jacuqe Le Gris and Jaun de Garouges. The last duel as it's called in literature and popular media is a true story where the last recorded and legal trial by combat happened in France. This all happened because Carouges' wife reported to have been raped by Le Gris who for months is poetically described by writers as courtly loving the on wife. Carouges took this to his lord who despised him, then to the King of France who sanctioned a fight when verdict could be placed. Carouges won and Le Gris wounded from the duel and then hanged by the neck. Not very chivalrous? I'd say so.

So…courtly love was basically just a pretentious form of simping…good to know.

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Simple and easy

They acted this way to people of the upper class

Amazing video!

I’m wondering when chivalry changed the mean like being extremely nice to women all the time😂

Thank you for sharing this

Very good

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Good video. Chivalry was imperfect (like everything in the real world) as the knights were still snobs looking down on serfs and lower segments of society, but was definitely a good movement and a step in the right direction.

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Looking at Medieval history, Chivalry was not really a thing

I'm watching this for homework 🥲

I’ve always dreamed about livin n during these times idk why like in a castle

its no different then the Soldier's creed, 7 Army values, NCO creed, etec.

The knights would take each other as POW's during battle but would not spare the rank and file infantry from the other side.

All that good stuff, Chivalry seems cool.🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Thank you! This was just what I was looking for!

Thank you very much for the clear & basic explanation, quite chivalrous of you man

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They really were the original gangsters

Well made video my sir

the clergy being the vatican banksters of the day?

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I've seen some of the rules they made for themselves, too bad you only covered the narrow scope of what people think today but good job at calling this version what it is: fantasy. Strange, the version I read never made it to the internet.