Chivalry facts for kids
Chivalry is a word from Old French in medieval times when it meant the use of a horse, thus cavalry and knighthood. Later, it meant the qualities of honour and love. Today, the terms chivalry and chivalrous are used to describe courteous behavior, especially that of men towards women.
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Images for kids
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God Speed by English artist Edmund Leighton, 1900: depicting an armoured knight departing for war and leaving his beloved
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Knights of Christ by Jan van Eyck
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Depiction of chivalric ideals in Romanticism (Stitching the Standard by Edmund Blair Leighton: the lady prepares for a knight to go to war)
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