ABSTRACT
We have already had to deal with two great waves of Eastern invaders who fell upon the rear of Christendom—the Magyars in the tenth century, and the Seljuk Turks in the eleventh. The former, as we have seen, carved out for themselves a kingdom of moderate size in the valley of the Danube, and were within little more than a century absorbed into the general body of European states, though they still showed many traces of their Oriental origin, most of all, perhaps, in their military habits. For they remained all through the Middle Ages a people of horse-bowmen, though their kings and nobles had fallen into the ranks of Christian chivalry, and adopted the arms, armour, and even the heraldry of the West.
