Chivalry did not affect the public history of Germany ... Its
influence on Imperial manners ... Intolerance and cruelty of
German knights ... Their harshness to their squires ... Avarice
of the Germans ... Little influence of German chivalry ... A
remarkable exception to this ... A female tournament ...
Maximilian, the only chivalric emperor of Germany ... Joust
between him and a French knight ... Edict of Frederic III.
destroyed chivalry ... CHIVALRY IN ITALY: ... Lombards carried
chivalry thither ... Stories of chivalric gallantry ... But
little martial chivalry in Italy ... Condottieri ... Chivalry in
the north ... Italians excellent armourers but bad knights ...
Chivalry in the south ... Curious circumstances attending
knighthood at Naples ... Mode of creating knights in Italy
generally ... Political use of knighthood ... Chivalric
literature ... Chivalric sports 303