Editing Chivalry (section)

===Ten Commandments of Chivalry===
Pioneering French literary historian [[Léon Gautier (historian)|Léon Gautier]] compiled what he called the medieval Ten Commandments of chivalry in his book ''La Chevalerie'' (1884):<ref name=Gautier1884>{{cite book|first=Léon|last=Gautier|author-link=Léon Gautier (historian)|year=1891|orig-year=1884|title=Chivalry|publisher=Routledge|chapter=The Code of Chivalry|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XttCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA26|translator-first=Henry|translator-last=Frith|page=26}}</ref>

# Thou shalt believe all that the Church teaches and thou shalt observe all its directions.
# Thou shalt defend the Church.
# Thou shalt respect all weaknesses, and shalt constitute thyself the defender of them.
# Thou shalt love the country in which thou wast born.
# Thou shalt not [[Wiktionary:recoil#Verb|recoil]] before thine enemy.
# Thou shalt make war against the infidel without cessation and without mercy.
# Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal duties, if they be not contrary to the laws of God.
# Thou shalt never lie, and shalt remain faithful to thy pledged word.
# Thou shalt be generous, and give [[Wiktionary:largesse#Noun|largesse]] to everyone.
# Thou shalt be everywhere and always the champion of the Right and the Good against Injustice and Evil.
In fact, there is no such medieval list.  Gautier's effort was a series of moral bullet points he abstracted from his broad reading of 12th and 13th century romances.