ABSTRACT
A storehouse of peculiarly medieval ideas on this subject is The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry. It was French in origin, but was adopted in many other countries through medieval translations and early printed editions. The book, however, is so easily accessible (E.E.T.S., 1868, reprinted 1915; another edition 1902, ed. G. B. Rawlings) that it seems better to draw here almost exclusively from other sources.
