Essays on Medieval Europe

There are many political problems existent in Mongolia. In 2017, the fifth presidential election was held and even though there were more than 66 percent of the people voting, not even one candidate had gotten the needed 51 percent of votes to win, because of...

Mongolia is a country located between two great powers Russia and China. This is a unique positioning in the international affairs arena, which requires it’s foreign and security policies to be balanced with its two neighbors and countries beyond. Therefore, Mongolia does not face immediate...

Mongolia is a Central Asian country bordered by China and Russia, known for its huge tracts of largely empty grassland, frozen winters and nomadic history. Mongolia is an independent, landlocked nation. Mongolia’s absolute location is 46.8625 North and 103.8476 East and is located in both...

The Middle Ages began from 900 AD and ended at around 1300 AD. During that period of time, it was often to be referred to as the “Dark Ages”, and this period of time was, in fact, a “Dark” age for most people because there...

The period of time between four hundred AD and 1400 AD should not be referred to as a “Dark Age”. Since this historical argument uses the term, Dark Age, it’s best mentioned as a depression of some sort or a fall with the cultural or...

The Dark Ages, when you hear something like that term you would probably think of a bad time. A time that no one wants to think about, and that people assume to be terrible and wrong. But is that really true? I believe that this...

“What is a man if not chivalrous?” a sentence that was as common as the air our colonial ancestors breathed. Unfortunately, much like the polluted air to which we are subjected to in the 21st century, the above sentence has tarnished and had its share...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a 14th century medieval English poetic story on romance and male chivalry. It is categorized as an Athurian story combining aspect of chivalry from the French, Irish, Welsh and English cultures as shown through the codes of behavior...

Sometimes we find ourselves looking back at time remembering all the highs and lows we have been through and at the end just admiring the simple life that once occurred. Chivalry does the same thing by bringing us back in time but by adding some...

Inside the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” is a story that deals and revolves around the ‘demonic’ Arnold Friend who is seen to possess some signs and unpredictable behaviors that can be said to be satanic, he is seen to have...

“Dark” and “light” were originally used as a metaphor by Christians to explain how people lived in the “dark” before Jesus came to the world to add “light” into people’s lives. Petrarch, an Italian scholar, used these terms of “dark” and “light” to illustrate learning,...

While the chivalric code has rarely taken the shape of a formal code of conduct, its effects can be observed in the way medieval life was shaped from the way wars were waged to the way nobility behaved. The original meaning of the word “chivalric”...

In this essay, we take a look at how the writers of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and First Knight use chivalry and courtly love, as well as taking a look at how one can use satire to easily ridicule the story of King...

Martin Luther’s To the Christian Nobility Of the German Nation effectively questions why religious clergy are superior to the common man. In this Luther is effectively inciting the Protestant Reformation. Not only does this train of thought represent the changing western mind, but it sets...

The backbone upon which the medieval romance “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” was constructed is the code of chivalry. Chivalry, in a modern context, may bring to mind the simple practice of being courteous to women. In a medieval context, though, it is the...

Characters in the poems, Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, all believed in most of the honorable codes of chivalry. Characters within the poem Beowulf valued bravery, strength, loyalty, and beliefs. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight characters honored similar codes. Beowulf...

When the chivalric code was introduced wars became lass barbaric, developing an honor-based system of warfare. Chivalry is characterized as, “a period of significant metamorphosis with an emphasis on lineage allegiance to one’s lord and violence”. Chivalry is known for of having deep routes in...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s most prestigious art museums. It all started in 1866 in Paris, France. People from all over the world, especially Americans, wanted to begin a ‘national institution and gallery of art’ to allow people to view...

While chivalry was characterized as an ethical, religious social code of noble and courtly conduct in medieval times, it has changed over time to be something less formal but still very relevant. The origin of chivalry “derives from old French as chevalerie, which is loosely...