"The medievalists of our day are hardly favorable to chivalry. Combing the records, in which chivalry is, indeed, little mentioned, they have succeeded in presenting a picture of the Middle Ages in which economic and social points of view are so dominant that one tends at times to forget that, next to religion, chivalry was the strongest of the ideas that filled the minds and the hearts of those men of another age."
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Johan Huizinga, 'The Political and Military Significance of Chivalric Ideas in the Late Middle Ages', Revue d'histoire diplomatique, vol. 35 (1921), pp. 126-138, quoted in Johan Huizinga, Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance: Essays, translated by James S. Holmes and Hans van Marle (1959), pp. 196-197
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