The armour of the knight and the trappings of the horse are labelled with the names of virtues.įrom British Library - Peraldus: Theological miscellany, including the Summa de vitiis In the image on the side: Diagram of the seven vices represented as devils: Superbia (Pride), Invidia (Envy), Ira (Wrath), Accidia (Sloth), Avaricia (Covetousness), Gula (Gluttony), and Luxuria (Self-indulgence), each subdivided, and countered by doves representing the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, a knight on horseback (the 'Just Man') with the shield of faith and armed with virtues, and an angel. The Code of Chivalry was an important part of the society and lives of people who lived during the Medieval times and was understood by all. The Code of Chivalry was the honor code of the knight. The Codes of chivalry also incorporates the notion of courtly love.
The Code of Chivalry is a moral system which goes beyond rules of combat and introduces the concept of Chivalrous conduct - qualities idealized by the Medieval knights such as bravery, courtesy, honor and great gallantry toward women. Religious devotion refers to opennes to spirituality and trascendence and not to specific structures. It means "the right to choose the priest of the parish".
From immemoria time the Lord of Ivanhoe/Ivinghoe had the right to adwovson. It is to note that we are independent from any religious structure. The chivalric initiation, the "Ordo", refers only to this last kind of chivalry. The Knights Templar in his novel exemplify these degraded qualities, while the Lord of Ivanhoe expresses the imagination of chivalry at its best. "But as, in actual practice", Scott admitted, "every institution becomes deteriorated and degraded, we have too much occasion to remark, that the actual devotion of the knights often degenrated into superstition, - their love into lincentiousness, -their spirit of loyalty or of freedom into tyranny and turmoil, - their generosity and gallantry into harebrained madness and absurdity". These are the values that the wounded Lord of Ivanhoe tries to explain to Rebecca. The love of freedom - both his own and and others - generosity, gallantry, loyalty and a perfect reputation were also essential principles to the knight. "In every age and country valour is held in esteem", he wrote, "and the more rude the period and the place, the greater respect is paid to boldness of enterprise in battle".īut only in the institution of chivalry did military valor combine with religious devotion and romantici love. Sir Walter Scott, the year before he started his novel, he had explored some of his ides in an "Essay on Chivalry" for the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1818. The Lord of Ivanhoe as presented by Sir Walter Scott is the epitome of the Chivalry. The Lordship of Ivanhoe and the Epitome of Chivalry We will give you some of these symbols below. These ancient tales of chivalry have a deep meaning for personal change. Women arrive and prepare a magnifique banquet. In the "Perceval", in the moment in which sir Perceval has not more any fear that the castle in which he is can collapse everything changes. Without fear it means you must be able to look even inside yourself. Without blemish it means a true knight must be impeccable in every action. Because you have to be "without without blemish and without fear". We find these views also in the core of the chivalric tradition, that is not just a tradition of warriors, it is instead a tradition of educated and elevated persons that ally the fact of being in the physical world, with a higher awareness. The Samurai in Japan, the martial arts in China share similar views. A meaning of presence and of connecting the transcendent with the physical reality. Always, in every culture, chivalry has been connected to a deeper meaning.
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