Everything about The Broad-stone Of Honour totally explained
The Broad Stone of Honour, or Rules for the Gentlemen of England, is a book written by
Kenelm Henry Digby and published first in 1822 by F. C. & J. Rivington of London. Then the work was subdivided into it constituent parts and published as
Godefridus (1829),
Tancredus (1828),
Morus (1826) and
Orlandus (1829). Later it was revised and republished as
The Broad Stone of Honour: Or, the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry (1844 to 1948).
Now almost unknown, Digby's
The Broad Stone of Honour (named after his favourite
castle,
Ehrenbreitstein) was an attempt to describe the true meaning of
chivalry and to revive it in modern life. In
Godefridus he defined it thus: "Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind which disposes men to heroic actions, and keeps them conversant with all that's beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world."
Digby concluded that the whole concept of
gallantry or chivalry is to be found in the Eight
Beatitudes; significantly the
eight-pointed crosses used by the
Knights of Malta and other such orders are believed to have alluded to the very same idea. The
book was so influential in its day that ideas such as the
Boy Scout movement can be traced back to it, .
Footnotes
- Holland,Bernard - Memoir of Kenelm Digby first published 1919; paperback, Fisher Press, 1992 ISBN 1 874037 05 1
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