Summary Of A Knight's Own Book Of Chivalry

A Knight’s Own Book of Chivalry by Geoffroi De Charny outlines the concept of chivalry and establishes the ideal conduct of knights of medieval era of the Hundred Year Was between France and Britain. The book goes over the many ways in which knights must conduct themselves to preserve their honor and capabilities of a knight, whether it be in acts of courtship, piety, or military prowess. Charny organizes the book by distinguishing the types of actions and qualities that are chivalrous and exemplify knighthood. He also goes over the conduct of knights and how knights should act to maintain their honor and uphold the prestige of knighthood, along with the importance of serving their lieges, kings, and lords, and the vices that Charny …show more content…
Charny’s purpose for writing the book would be to establish the proper qualities of chivalrous knights and conducts that allow knights to be considered honorable and worthy of knighthood. Charny organized the book to act as a guide of conduct for knights for everyday life, also to help knights model themselves properly and further their careers as knights. Considering Charny was a knight himself serving under King Jean II and had a veritable reputation as a knight, the evidence for chivalry and knighthood that Charny presents in the book are accurate and credible as Charny did live in the era of the medieval age of knights and was a respectable knight with first hand experience about the knighthood and chivalry, though it is a somewhat biased in a sense as Charny was a very religious man he emphasized the importance of the religious and aspects of piety in knighthood and chivalry. Charny’s A Knight’s Own Book of Chivalry fits as a piece of literature in the field of historical warfare, because it allows readers to understand the mentality of warfare for knights in the medieval ages, more specifically during the hundred-year war between France and England and why knights went to war for reasons such as honor,