People think of Knights as men who rode on horseback in shiny armor, but really there is a whole bunch more to them then just the glorified details we all know. They had to train, follow a code, and fight for things that they didn’t necessarily believe in. Sometimes, the knights fought just so the Lord or King would give them land or gold so they will be of nobility class.
If you were a higher standard in the social class, sometimes the kids would be able to become a knight in training, there were a few stages to this such as, being a Page, then a Squire, and then a Knight. In these two article “Medieval Knight” and “Facts on Medieval Knights”, it discuss how it takes about seven years for a page to become a squire, then seven more years …show more content…
Jousting is where two knights are on two different horses running at each other, holding a jousting weapon called a lance. Kind of like we run, workout, and play sports to keep in shape today but it's not so we will ready for battle, besides the military men and women. In the article “Jousting,” “The tournaments kept the knights in excellent condition for the role he would need to play during medieval warfare- skill with weapons and supreme strength and fitness were necessary to knights of the Middle Ages.” The article seems like they were in a high level of schooling like college, training with the big …show more content…
It also show how diverse combat could be. In the article “Jousting”, it describes an event where people like to go and watch this ‘magical dance happen’. Now in days if the local people’s children are in school, we just have big dances like prom, or banquets to honor the athletes. The athletes had to be in a sport, at the banquet they would honor the best players or player. Knights were not just honored for fighting but the way they acted as they had to follow a code called the Code of Chivalry. It wasn’t like a rule but rather morals the knights followed like it says in the articles “Medieval Code of Chivalry” and the “Code of Chivalry” it went beyond rules of combat it was the concept of Chivalrous conduct. The glorified details of a knight being brave, courtesy, honorable and gallantry toward women.
It’s kind of like how we have rules now in days where they are not really rules but our morals that we need to follow. We don’t have to take an oath or anything to be able to work or go
If you were a higher standard in the social class, sometimes the kids would be able to become a knight in training, there were a few stages to this such as, being a Page, then a Squire, and then a Knight. In these two article “Medieval Knight” and “Facts on Medieval Knights”, it discuss how it takes about seven years for a page to become a squire, then seven more years …show more content…
Jousting is where two knights are on two different horses running at each other, holding a jousting weapon called a lance. Kind of like we run, workout, and play sports to keep in shape today but it's not so we will ready for battle, besides the military men and women. In the article “Jousting,” “The tournaments kept the knights in excellent condition for the role he would need to play during medieval warfare- skill with weapons and supreme strength and fitness were necessary to knights of the Middle Ages.” The article seems like they were in a high level of schooling like college, training with the big …show more content…
It also show how diverse combat could be. In the article “Jousting”, it describes an event where people like to go and watch this ‘magical dance happen’. Now in days if the local people’s children are in school, we just have big dances like prom, or banquets to honor the athletes. The athletes had to be in a sport, at the banquet they would honor the best players or player. Knights were not just honored for fighting but the way they acted as they had to follow a code called the Code of Chivalry. It wasn’t like a rule but rather morals the knights followed like it says in the articles “Medieval Code of Chivalry” and the “Code of Chivalry” it went beyond rules of combat it was the concept of Chivalrous conduct. The glorified details of a knight being brave, courtesy, honorable and gallantry toward women.
It’s kind of like how we have rules now in days where they are not really rules but our morals that we need to follow. We don’t have to take an oath or anything to be able to work or go