Tuesday, May 17, 2011

How does chivalry relates to the crusades?

    The crusaders invented the mounted warrior with a lance to characterize knighthood. The lance came from foot soldiers who used lances like javelins to throw or used them for stabbing like a spear. The new way knights used lances was they positioned the point of the lance with their arm in the enemies direction.The lance was placed in the armpit on the knight and the saddle was deeper so the lance could hit with more force for more power. This technique was one of the main prospects that chivalry formed, and in time knighthood began to developed its own code of ethnics and technology.
        The crusade was both a pilgrimage and a holy war which regrades some knights as better than others. Their skill was demonstrated in battle fought for the pope of Italy, which basically means that the knights fought for the church. The crusaders were Christ's vassals, or in other words they were warriors of god. Participation in the crusade was not a duty of the code of chivalry. The first crusade was a military success but was a papacy failure. A papacy is what the people and the pope think. Since chivalry and the crusades were so different they both eventually split into two entirely different groups .

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