Chivalry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...development in the 12th and 13th cent. Chivalric ethics originated chiefly in France and...knighted, usually at 21. The chief chivalric virtues were piety, honor, valor...the ideals of chivalry. In practice, chivalric conduct was never free from corruption...