Throughout 476 A.D. To 1350 A.D. The Middle Ages Reigned. Life Was About That On

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Term Paper Title	Throughout 476 A.D. To 1350 A.D. The Middle Ages Reigned. Life Was About That On
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Throughout 476 A.D. to 1350 A.D. the Middle Ages reigned.  Life was about that one code. The Code of
Chivalry.  Chivalry, the order of knighthood and especially the code of knightly behavior, was a feature of
the High and later Middle Ages in western Europe.  In the Middle Ages life was about glory, honor, and
those oh so important ten guidelines.  Those ten guidelines are: unswerving belief in the church and
obedience to her teachings willingly to defend the church, respect, honor and defend the ladies, respect and
pity for the weak and steadfastness in defending them, love of country, refusal to retreat before an enemy,
unceasing and merciless war against the infidel, strict obedience to the feudal overlord, so long as those
duties do not conflict with the duty of God, loyalty to the truth and to the pledged word, generosity in
giving, championship of the right and good, in every place and at all times, against the forces of evil.  In
this essay I will discuss three d!
ifferent individual codes throughly.  Those codes are: respect, honor, and defend ladies, love of country,
and refusal to retreat before an enemy.

     The code Respect, honor, and defend ladies means much more than it appears to.  In the Middle
Ages women were regarded as high society.  Men were to have treated them with the utmost respect and
honor.  Most Arthurian Legend had to do with women.  One famous one introduces Lancelot, Arthur's chief
knight and his rival for Guinevere's love.  Another poem about Percival is the earliest story of the search for
the Holy Grail, which from then on was incorporated into the legend.  In the Middle Ages a women was
something you did not want to cross.  Every

which way you were to taught to respect, honor, and most of all defend ladies.

     The "Love of one's country" went very far in the Middle Ages.  With the blink of an eye a person
living in the Middle Ages would go out to fight in honor of their country.  On a cold November day in
1095, Pope Urban II mounted a platform outside the church at Clermont, France.  His voice shaking with
emotion, he addressed the assembled crowd, asking for a volunteer army to take Jerusalem and Palestine
from the Seljuks.  As you can see people who lived in the Middle Ages had an enormous love for their
country, and were willing to sacrifice their life for the love of their country.  Also, all throughout the many
wars occurring in the Middle Ages, such as th...

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