Lancelot wasn't just a knight of King Arthur's court. He was a foreigner in King Arthur's land. He was a prince from Gaul. He was the son of King Ban and Queen Elaine of Benoic. King Arthur failed to come to the aid of King Ban of Benoic when King Claudas was making war on King Ban who died after losing his kingdom. The Lady of the Lake stole Lancelot from his mother, Queen Elaine and raised him as her own son. She took him to King Arthur to be knighted and told him the truth about not being his mother. Lancelot didn't find out about his name and parentage until the capture of Dolorous Guard.
If Lancelot sided with Galahaut in the war against King Arthur, King Arthur wouldn't have a kingdom. Lancelot's extraordinary prowess of arms won over Galahaut who was a conqueror of many kingdoms. Lancelot got Galahaut to surrender to King Arthur even though he was at the point of victory. All of Lancelot's deeds that led to his being known as the greatest knight in the world were for Guinevere, and he confessed that to her. When Galahaut requested Guinevere to return Lancelot's love, she readily accepted and she sealed the love pact with a kiss. Guinevere told Lancelot that she is his because he has done so much and that it gave her great joy.
Because of the conflict between the ascetic mysticism of the Quest of the Holy Grail and the glorification of Lancelot,earthly chivalry, and courtly love, The Vulgate was reworked by eliminating much of the Vulgate Lancelot material and attributing Arthur's downfall not to Lancelot's love for the queen but to the results of Arthur's early, unwitting sin of incest with his halfsister, Morgause that led to Mordred. This was known as the Post-Vulgate which was also written in the 13th Century.
I cannot help wonder that Vulgate's Lancelot Proper and the Quest of the Holy Grail were written by totally different people. The former emphasized courtly love and the latter concentrated on the religious in such a great way that it seems like Christian monks wrote it. Thomas Mallory's Le Morte D'Arthur seems to be based on the Post-Vulgate with a little bit of Lancelot Proper.
page 275 of Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation
Volume II edited by NorrIs J. Lacy:
She said, "My dear friend, this where things stand, as you see: I am separated from my husband the king as a result of my misdeed-yes, I acknowledge it-not that I am not his lawful wife and just as crowned and anointed as he, and daughter of King Leodegran of Carmelide as well, but I have been hurt by the sin of going to bed with a man other than my husband."
"Still, there is no upstanding lady in the world who would not feel impelled to sacrifice something to make an upstanding knight like you happy. Too bad Our Lord pays no heed to our courtly ways, and a person whom the world sees as good is wicked to God. But now I have to beg a favor of you, because I have reached a point where I have to watch myself more closely than ever before. I ask you, then in the name of your great love for me, to seek no more of me from now on than a kiss or an embrace, if you like, unless at my invitation. This much of me, though, you will have as long as I stay here; and when I find the time and place are right and you are willing, I will gladly let you have the rest."
"But my will right now is that you be patient for awhile. You must not doubt that I am yours forever;you have deserved it, and my heart, besides, would never let me give you up. Remember, when my lord the king asked that I urge you to remain in his household, I said more to him than I have said just now, for I told him I preferred being with you to being with him."
"My lady," said Lancelot, "nothing you wish can be a burden to me. I am wholly subject to your will, even if it means no less than happiness; and I'll endure whatever you like, because my fulfillment can only come through you."
As a person that has Neo-pagan,New Age, New Thought,and Unitarian Universalist beliefs and see things in gray, I view Lancelot and Guinevere's love for each other as something that is not necessarily good nor bad. I think it's relative.
I definitely don't view this couple as the type that just want to have sex. I view them as having romantic feelings for each other.
The contrast between courtly love and traditional religious views is definitely acknowledged by Guinevere.
Lancelot comes off as somebody that views Guinevere as more than object of carnal desire. He seems to be entirely devoted to her.
The beginning, there was talking about Arthurian Legend. He mentioned stuff about Lancelot and Guinevere as well as the Holy Grail.
Everything that I mentioned was relevant to the video.
Therefore, it's not astounding that I thought these fantasy narratives are relevant to a video on theological history.
Your point is still valid that the aristocracy sought to restrict the privileges of knighthood to its own bloodlines through intermarriage and other favors to their own class. By feudal times all occupations had become more or less inherited, so it's no surprise that the occupation of fighting had become hereditary as well.
Requiem of the American dream: https://youtu.be/CyFSvnLnCZ0?t=1m28s
I thought the word chivalry was a kind of play on the french word for horseman. (cheval= horse. chevalier=horseman/knight.) chivalry= perhaps the conduct/practice(s) of said horseman like archery is to the archer. its all speculation but as mentioned in your lecture the term derives from the franks (Charlemagne era), the "prerequisite" french. my question is, could this be a great possibility? (linguistically)
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