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We must continue the culture and teach our children about the being chivarlous.
The Code of Chivalry and Courtly Love
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The Code of Chivalry
The Ten Commandments of the Code of Chivalry
From Chivalry by Leon Gautier
- Thou shalt believe all that the Church teaches, and
shalt observe all its directions.
- Thou shalt defend the Church.
- Thou shalt repect all weaknesses, and shalt
constitute thyself the defender of them.
- Thou shalt love the country in the which thou
wast born.
- Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy.
- Thou shalt make war against the Infidel without
cessation, and without mercy.
- Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal
duties, if they be not contrary to the laws of God.
- Thou shalt never lie, and shall remain faithful
to thy pledged word.
- Thou shalt be generous, and give largess to
everyone.
- Thou shalt be everywhere and always the champion
of the Right and the Good against Injustice and Evil.
The Code of Chivalry
From the Rifts: England Supplement
I'm pretty sure I got this list somewhere else, but I
haven't found out where. Still, some reference is better than none, so thanks to
Jeremy Treanor for giving me this one.
- Live to serve King and Country.
- Live to defend Crown and Country and all it holds
dear.
- Live one's life so that it is worthy of respect
and honor.
- Live for freedom, justice and all that is good.
- Never attack an unarmed foe.
- Never use a weapon on an opponent not equal to
the attack.
- Never attack from behind.
- Avoid lying to your fellow man.
- Avoid cheating.
- Avoid torture.
- Obey the law of king, country, and chivalry.
- Administer justice.
- Protect the innocent.
- Exhibit self control.
- Show respect to authority.
- Respect women.
- Exhibit Courage in word and deed.
- Defend the weak and innocent.
- Destroy evil in all of its monstrous forms.
- Crush the monsters that steal our land and rob
our people.
- Fight with honor.
- Avenge the wronged.
- Never abandon a friend, ally, or noble cause.
- Fight for the ideals of king, country, and
chivalry.
- Die with valor.
- Always keep one's word of honor.
- Always maintain one's principles.
- Never betray a confidence or comrade.
- Avoid deception.
- Respect life and freedom.
- Die with honor.
- Exhibit manners.
- Be polite and attentive.
- Be respectful of host, women, and honor.
- Loyalty to country, King, honor, freedom, and the
code of chivalry.
- Loyalty to one's friends and those who lay their
trust in thee.
Rules of Courtly Love
I wanted to put these here because I think that there are
some good ideas in these sets of rules. It's also interesting to see how our
ideas about love have changed with time (OK, so we don't exactly have the idea
of courtly love around anymore, but still). Some of this is certainly outdated
and probably not very useful, but some of it is still good advice; I'm sure
you'll recognize which points are useful even today. Both lists apparently come
from the same source, The Art of Courtly Love by Andreas Capellanus.
Thanks to Mark Lipsman for pointing out an error (now corrected) in point 2 of
the second list below.
The Twelve Chief Rules in Love
From The Art of Courtly Love by Andreas
Capellanus
- Thou shalt avoid avarice like the deadly pestilence
and shalt embrace its opposite.
- Thou shalt keep thyself chaste for the sake of
her whom thou lovest.
- Thou shalt not knowingly strive to break up a
correct love affair that someone else is engaged in.
- Thou shalt not chose for thy love anyone whom a
natural sense of shame forbids thee to marry.
- Be mindful completely to avoid falsehood.
- Thou shalt not have many who know of thy love
affair.
- Being obedient in all things to the commands of
ladies, thou shalt ever strive to ally thyself to the service of Love.
- In giving and receiving love's solaces let
modesty be ever present.
- Thou shalt speak no evil.
- Thou shalt not be a revealer of love affairs.
- Thou shalt be in all things polite and courteous.
- In practising the solaces of love thou shalt not
exceed the desires of thy lover.
The Art of Courtly Love
From The Art of Courtly Love by Andreas
Capellanus
- Marriage is no real excuse for not loving.
- He who is not jealous cannot love.
- No one can be bound by a double love.
- It is well known that love is always increasing
or decreasing.
- That which a lover takes against the will of his
beloved has no relish.
- Boys do not love until they reach the age of
maturity.
- When one lover dies, a widowhood of two years is
required of the survivor.
- No one should be deprived of love without the
very best of reasons.
- No one can love unless he is propelled by the
persuasion of love.
- Love is always a stranger in the home of avarice.
- It is not proper to love any woman whom one would
be ashamed to seek to marry.
- A true lover does not desire to embrace in love
anyone except his beloved.
- When made public love rarely endures.
- The easy attainment of love makes it of little
value: difficulty of attainment makes it prized.
- Every lover regularly turns pale in the presence
of his beloved.
- When a lover suddenly catches sight of his
beloved his heart palpitates.
- A new love puts an old one to flight.
- Good character alone makes any man worthy of
love.
- If love diminishes, it quickly fails and rarely
revives.
- A man in love is always apprehensive.
- Real jealousy always increases the feeling of
love.
- Jealousy increases when one suspects his beloved.
- He whom the thought of love vexes eats and sleeps
very little.
- Every act of a lover ends in the thought of his
beloved.
- A true lover considers nothing good except what
he thinks will please his beloved.
- Love can deny nothing to love.
- A lover can never have enough of the solaces of
his beloved.
- A slight presumption causes a lover to suspect
his beloved.
- A man who is vexed by too much passion usually
does not love.
- A true lover is constantly and without
intermission possessed by the thought of his beloved.
- Nothing forbids one woman being loved by two men
or one man by two women.
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