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Ep. 96: Hard Times Make Strong Men

Young Heretics

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What Are the Conditions for Chivalry?

The values of chivlry are not unique to the middle ages, right? Loyalty, honor, virtue, manly virtue, all these things. Our gong to seek and pursue those virtues in very different ways,. perhaps by, you know, going to the lions rather than giving up christ andther ar all sorts of exemplars of that rite a in the mediaeval period. If people are trying to fight on horseback, and warlord ism is sort of breaking out across the european continent, kings need a way to sustain and consolidate their power and to encourage loyalty.

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