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Excerpt from L'ordene De Chevalerie: An Old French Poem; Text, With Introduction and Notes Lack of organization appears also from the variety of ceremonial at different times and under different circumstances. Thus the colee, which the hero of our poem names as an important detail but refuses to administer to Saladin, seems to have been entirely absent in the early history of knighthood, whereas in the form Of the accolade it became the essential and often the only element of later knightings. And again, although our poem stresses the religious significance of the ceremony, there is no mention of anything corresponding to the church vigil which came later to play so important a part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.