ABSTRACT
As chivalry was common to all Christendom,so its laws arid customs belonged to Christendom, not to this or that nation. The military ascendency of the Franks gave a Frankish colour to chivalry, and set the pattern to the knighthood of other nations: and in the Crusades, where all Europe came together as a universal tilting-ground, the idea of a common bond of knighthood was prominent.
