Click2Flicks - A Knight's Tale - Chapter 5

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>A KNIGHT'S TALE</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 5 - KNIGHTS</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3"><a href="http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/LifeTimes/People.html" target="_blank"><b>Knights</b></a> were part of the fabric of Middle-Ages life. Chaucer’s famous story, <a href="http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/images/big/cha1561a.jpg" target="_blank"><b><i>The Knight’s Tale</b></i></a>, gives us romantic <a href="http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/elles.htm" target="_blank"><b>account</b></a> of a knight’s <a href="http://icg.harvard.edu/~chaucer/canttales/knight/ktsum.html" target="_blank"><b>existence</b></a>. (Follow the link to a summary of the tale at Harvard University’s web site.) </p> <p>Realistically, though, the life of a knight was not always glamorous or <a href="http://www.siue.edu/CHAUCER/handout.html" target="_blank"><b>romantic</b></a>. Loaded down with heavy <a href="http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/images/jpeg/i3_0059.jpg" target="_blank"><b>armor</b></a>, they rode horses capable of carrying at least 400 pounds. </p> <p>Astride their protected mounts, knights would hone their <a href="http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/images/jpeg/i3_0064.jpg" target="_blank"><b>battle</b></a> skills by <a href="http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/images/jpeg/i5_0049.jpg" target="_blank"><b>hunting</b></a> and <a href="http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/images/jpeg/i3_0058.jpg" target="_blank"><b>jousting</b></a>. Doing <a href="http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/images/jpeg/i3_0077.jpg" target="_blank"><b>battle</b></a> in the "lists" (the place of <a href="http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/images/jpeg/i3_0081.jpg" target="_blank"><b>jousting</b></a>) was sometimes as <a href="http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/images/jpeg/i3_0073.jpg" target="_blank"><b>ferocious</b></a> as fighting the king’s enemies.</p> <p>One knight - known during his day as the greatest of all - was not someone else’s vassal. He was Edward of Woodstock, the Prince of Wales, son of King <a target="_blank" href="http://www.royal.gov.uk/files/images/edward-III_lrg.jpg"><b>Edward III</b></a>. Later he was known as "The Black Prince." </p> </div> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="knight_tale_ch4.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="knight_tale_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="knight_tale_ch6.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>