but what he wrote down was more factual, historical, military,

and Chretien was the first one

who really what we think of as Knightly adventures

And then we'll go to read Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan

You might be familiar with that from Vaughner

and we even have the term,

that kind of swoon you see so much on soap operas

is referred to in theater is the Zolder swoon

because she swoons and dies because she's so sad

And so some of this material and this is,

we have 3 kinds of knights we talk about

We're gonna have kind of the standard knight

what you think of as far as corely tradition,

and then we're gonna have a knight who is educated

and we're gonna talk about some of these quite quickly,

a knight who's educated

and so not only does he do all that Knightly stuff

but like and speak foreign languages

They can play instruments, they can tell stories,

and then the final type of knight kind of the peak of knightdom

if you will I'll just put down Grail for lack of something else

for the moment, but the idea of seeking something

higher than yourself

So fulfillment is not here in this world just to be the perfect knight And we see

knightly stuff all the time

I've made the poor choice of recently renting too many videos

I end up watching Judge Dredge Dredd

I'm not a big Stalone fan anyway

But just watching that, that's all knightly stuff again

Where are the guys walking around in armor

On one of these tapes we have, I think it's Le Morte d'Arthur

which is available in the Springfield library

They talked to people about making of Star Wars

and how they went back

and patterned all the stuff on knightly armor,

and so there's there's tied in all this material

So anyway, those are the 3 things we'll read

Purpose the literature chevreaux which originated in 12th century France

quickly spread into Germany

The ideals the ideals and goals depicted in the works

of this period set the behavioural ideals

of the European Middle Ages and still influence

our social standards today

One of the things that we see, we hear a lot

is about the demise of morals, the demise of standards

and part of that like this dress standards and everything else

and that we're now in a counter swing back to more formality

I was reading about how casual Friday

had become so institutionalized that dress in the workplace

has become really bad so the big new craze

is formal Thursdays where they're trying

to get people to learn how to dress