1. The Age of Chivalry
Chapter 13
Section 3

2. Key Terms
Chivalry
Tournament
Troubadour

3. Knights: Warriors on Horseback
Mounted soldiers
700’s Charles Martel observe Muslim cavalry
Organized Frankish horseman
Technology of warfare
Leather saddles
Stirrups

4. Knights: Warriors on Horseback
Stirrups helped to brace the rider
Knights at full tilt could knock over soldiers and riders on horseback
Knights and warhorses had key military role

5. Warriors Role in Feudal Society
11th century lords raised armies
Knights awarded with fiefs
Wealth of fief allowed them to devote life to war
Could buy costly weapons

6. Warriors Role in Society
Knights obligation was to serve in battle
40 days a year for combat
Often trained for war
Wrestling and hunting helped them to get stronger

7. Knighthood and the Code of Chivalry
Chivalry- complex set of ideas
Knight fight bravely
Devote himself to the earthly feudal lord
His heavenly lord
His lady
Most knights did not meet these standards

8. A Knight’s Training Age 7 sent to another lord
Page sharpened his fighting skills
Age 14 becomes a squire
Is a servant to the knight
Age 21 full fledged night
After being dubbbed a knight travels for 1 or 2 years

9. A Knights Training Tournaments- combine recreation and skill
Were fierce and bloody
Winners could demand large ransoms from defeated knight

10. Brutal Reality of Warfare
1100’s massive walls and guard towers on castles
Dominated country side of western Europe
Lords, lady, knight lived in the castle
Attacking armies used many weapons

11. Brutal Reality of Warfare
Defenders poured
Boiling water
Boiling oil
Molten lead
Used archers
Arrows could pierce armor

12. Literature of Chivalry
Idealized castles
Songs and poems of knights undying love
Glorified knighthood and battles

13. Epic Poetry Song of Roland-one of the earliest medieval epics
Praises French soldiers who perished under Charlemagne’s rule
A few brave knights are led by Roland
Overwhelmed by the Muslims

14. Love Poems and Songs Conflicts between lady and duty to his lord
Troubadours-traveling poet-musicians
Compose short verses of songs about joy
Might sing about love’s dissapointments

15. Love Poems and Songs Eleanor Aquitaine Queen of England
Mother of two kings
Richard the Lion Hearted
John

16. Women’s Role in Feudal Society
Women were powerless
Same as most men
Women thought to be inferior to men (Church’s view)
Played important role in peasant and noble families

17. Noblewomen Could inherit an estate
Upon her lord’s request send knights into battle
Acted a military commander of the castle
Hurled rocks and shot arrows at attackers
Most activities are at home or the convent
Most fiefs went to sons

18. Peasant Women Lower class women’s lives unchanged for centuries
Endless labor
Bore children
Took care of the family
Poor and powerless
Economic contributions were essential for the family