SC - help needed on knightly virtues/Ideals of Chivalry

[Laura C Minnick]

Beatrix,

	Most knights I know wouldn't know a carving knife from a seax.
Which is a shame- they seem to have abandoned most of the training in
courtesy and service that was REQUIRED of knights (and gentlemen of all
stripes) in period. Harumph.

	Sources? I got sources for you...

	Find this book in your local University library, or get the local
library to get it via ILL.-

	F.J.Furnivall, ed. _Early English Meals and Manners_. London,
Early English Text Society, 1868.

In the Furnival you will find these very useful texts:

	_The Boke of Curtasye_ (Sloane MS, 1986, British Museum,
1430-1440)
	Wynkyn de Worde's _The Boke of Kervynge_, 1413
	John Russell's _The Boko of Nurture_ (Harleian MS. 4011, BrM, mid
15ht c.)
	_Ffor to Serve a Lord_ early 16th century

These are all manners and training books- the sort used in a large noble
house to teach the young men. Very, Very useful. There is also a good deal
of material on serving etc., in :

	Bridget Ann Henisch's _Fast and Feast_ (University Park,
Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976)

If you have more questions, please ask- I did a term project on servers
and serving for a class I took on Medieval Ceremony and Ritual, and
somewhere I still have the materials. (Probably under the rock, like
everything els...)

'Lainie
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Laura C. Minnick
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'A Vaillans Coeurs Riens Impossible'
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"Libraries have been the death of many great men, particularly the
Bodleian."
	Humfrey Wanley, c. 1731





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