Download or read book The Chivalric Turn written by David Crouch and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of Enlightenment historians, seeing superior conduct as 'knightly' behaviour, categorising it as chivalry. This book shows what superior lay conduct was in Europe before chivalry, and maps how and why chivalry emerged and redefined superior conduct in the late twelfth century.