For almost seven hundred years between the ninth and sixteenth centuries
knights were the lords of the battlefield, admired and respected for their
abilities and their chivalry and courage. So how did a boy in these
centuries become a knight?
Becoming a knight was a tradition that changed over the centuries of the
middle ages and by around the sixteenth century, with the advent of
gunpowder and firearms, had...
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