The Origins of Knighthood

Although the roots of knighthood can be traced back further in time, the knight is essentially a product of the militarization of society which began in the tenth century and accelerated in the eleventh.

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The knight is associated with the advent of feudalism, a form of society distinguished by the decentralization of authority, by the growth of ties of personal dependence between man and man (or vassalage), by the physical domination of  of the rural populate by lords in order to live off...