Like all human institutions, Knighthood was doomed to perish as soon as it had outlived its usefulne ...

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Chapter 32第三十二章Chivalry骑士精神It was quite natural that the professional fighting-men of the M ...

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A young knight therefore was asked to swear that he would be faithful as a servant to God and as a s ...

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Unfortunately the power of the kings of France did not stretch beyond the moat of their royal reside ...

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Under these circumstances, the noble knight could not well show the rage which filled his heart and ...

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This, in a very general way, is what happened during the centuries which followed the Crusades. It w ...

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Suppose that we let him have a hundred ducats and that he give us in return a written guarantee allo ...

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That was dangerous business for the borrower. In the end, the Lombards invariably owned the estates ...

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The mediaeval knight was a country squire and was rarely forced to pay for materials in money. His e ...

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Soon certain energetic merchants discovered that the goods which they had always imported from afar ...

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You have seen how a few artisans(butchers and bakers and an occasional candle-stick maker) came to l ...

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No, the progress of the last six hundred years would not have been possible without the existence of ...

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But please do not be too sentimental about the "good old days". Many people who only s ...

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Of course, it would never do to say this openly.当然，谁也不会把这些情绪公开流露出来。But when the C ...

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Chapter 35第三十五章The Mediaeval city中世纪的城市Why the people of the middle ages said that &quo ...

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Meanwhile the German chieftain, the Frankish Baron, the Northman Duke (or whatever their names and t ...

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But if the progress of the world had been left to the serf and his feudal master, we would still be ...

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During the next two centuries, seven other crusades took place. Gradually the Crusaders learned the ...

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The first Crusade, a wild mob of honest Christians, defaulting bankrupts, penniless noblemen and fug ...

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The Northmen were very intelligent They soon learned to speak the language of their subjects and gav ...

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