The True Meaning Of Knights Lieberman

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In this article, Lieberman introduces the idea of what makes a man develop to a knight. He insists that that the elaboration of knighting ritual has changed throughout the later Middle Ages. In the beginning of 11th century, Lieberman explains how every man that has displayed homage, has not been proclaimed as a knight. Additionally, the term “knight” wasn’t even an actual term that many European countries used to describe a chivalric man. For this reasoning, Lieberman wanted to answer the questions of what physical acts were involved and how these acts are what makes men defined as knights (Lieberman 398). Throughout many researches about the true meaning of knights, he argues that there’s no single noun that can be related to the notion of

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