What exactly was a knight, and what did it really mean?
Knighthood meant different things to different people at different times in the Medieval and Early Modern period.
This talk traces the evolution of knighthood from the Feudal Knight of the Norman Conquest, the Godly Knight of the Crusades and the Courtly Knight of the twelfth century to the 1600s, when anyone with enough money and status could buy a knighthood.
Did knighthood mean the same in Tudor and Stuart England, or had the term been downgraded?
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