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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6393347, member: 110504&quot;]Yike, another typo!&nbsp; Now I&#039;m starting to feel right at home.&nbsp; The burgundians&nbsp; (Edit: <i>sic!!!</i>) were, of course, allies of England --as anyone who saw the movie with Ingrid Bergman knows.</p><p>...It&#039;s interesting that you get the first rumblings, this early, of chivalric motifs with connotations which are as ceremonial as they are purely martial.&nbsp; Witness the royal portraits, numismatic and otherwise, showing the king in full armor as late as the 17th century.</p><p>...Granted that we can&#039;t just write off the efficacy of heavy cavalry from the 14th century.&nbsp; In other contexts, it was a functioning part of the tactical landscape well into the 15th.&nbsp; One book that&#039;s of use on that issue is Stephen Turnbull&#039;s <u>Book of the Medieval Knight</u> (1985; Cassell, 1996).&nbsp; Despite the title, the book (essentially narrative history, although it jumps around geographically) starts from the 14th century, ending with the late 15th.&nbsp; ...Also cool is that Turnbull focussed (mainly in other books) on the parallels between later European chivalry and the Samurai.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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