Discuss chivalry literature from a sociogenetic perspective. First of all, we need to discuss the rise of the "court", and the palace in the Carolingian sense is actually not a palace in the Eastern sense. It is more about a kind of federation politics formed by the warrior class. The chivalry system was first born from the professional military service system, and it roughly lasted from the late Roman period to the Gothic and then to the Carolingian dynasty. This kind of federation politics actually formed A form of self-organization is the "ascending system" of the samurai class. The difference between this rising system and the bureaucratic system is that it is not a functional unit, but is composed of two mechanisms in the lords' association system: the land fief system, or the system of land expansion formed by the military meritorious service. organizational unit. In the patronage system, the relationship between big lords and small lords is not a vassal relationship, but tax collection and even justice between lords are completely private, and they obey each other's unwritten law (lord's contract) and later Christianity ethics.
In fact, the lord-vassal relationship is more similar to a guarantee agreement between patrons. Just like Charlemagne's conquests in the east and west, in fact his main property was the manor and land of the royal territory. A similar situation occurred during Red Beard's Eastern Expedition. Henry II ensured the territorial boundaries of the HRE, and also implemented the rule by rewarding the knight class and even the farming and expansion of agricultural areas. Due to the existence of this incident, the knight class gradually became a kind of "honorary class". Honor was interpreted in the eyes of Montesquieu and other classical political philosophers as the "credit line" in the unwritten legal system of the monarchy and feudal era. It is also a symbol of the class relationship between knights.
The nature of this loose court was a discussion system between lords similar to a representative meeting near the king's territory, but it was still enough to fund the creation of early poets and writers. Therefore, the praise of "lords' conquests" and the legitimacy of the regime became the main content in early narrative works.