A BRIEF HISTORY OF KNIGHTHOOD

What is Knighthood?
The notion of Knighthood or chivalry is an ambiguous one as can deduced from the vocabulary: the word chivalry ( from the french "chevalerie") stresses the french word "cheval": a horse, but it is evocative of much more than just horsemen and takes on connotations at once professional, social, religious, cultural and even institutional whether English word Knighthood is used or the word chivalry,
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