Chivalry

Chivalry

!Konrad von Limpurg as a knight being armed by his lady in the [Codex Manesse (early 14th century)](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/MeisterderManessischenLiederhandschrift001.jpg/250px-MeisterderManessischenLiederhandschrift001.jpg)

Terminology and definitions

![God Speed) by English artist Edmund Leighton, 1900: depicting an armoured knight departing for war and leaving his beloved](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Leighton-GodSpeed%21.jpg/250px-Leighton-GodSpeed%21.jpg)

Terminology and definitions

The meaning of the term evolved over time into a broader sense, because in the Middle Ages the meaning of chevalier changed from the original concrete military meaning "status or fee associated with a military follower owning a war horse" or "a group of mounted knights" to the ideal of the Christian warrior ethos propagated in the romance) genre, which was becoming popular during the 12th century, and the ideal of courtly love propagated in the contemporary Minnesang and related genres.

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