Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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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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Fig. 115.—King Artus, protected by the Virgin, is fighting a Giant.—Fac-simile of a Woodcut inthe Chroniques de Bretagne, of Alain Bouchard ; 4to, Paris, Galliot du Pre, 1514. manner.- But chivalry soon began to decline, both as an institution and as adoctrine. Froissart characterizes and describes with picturesque liveliness thistendency to decay, which, as time advanced, gradually resulted in a complete CHIVALRY. transformation, so that the chivalric ideal became lost, and the independenceof the soldier, once the slave only of his God and of his lady, gave way to theobsequiousness of the courtier, and finally became a selfish and pitiful servility. At these different epochs of organic transformation, chivalry was con-stantly modifying itself according to each nations particular tendency. InThuringia and Saxony, in Ireland and in Norway, it resisted longer thanelsewhere the growing influence of Christianity. It exhibits its semi-paganism in certain passages of the Niebelungen, a

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