Select all that apply. Which statements about chivalry are correct?
It was a code of conduct expected of knights✓Correct answer
It is a reliable description of how knights actually behaved in war
Bravery, loyalty, honour and courtesy were among the qualities it called for✓Correct answer
It was a written law enforced in every royal court with fixed penalties
It was an ideal, and knights did not always live up to it✓Correct answer
Explanation
The code set out what a knight was supposed to be, and the qualities it named were repeated in poems, sermons and household instruction across western Europe. Treating it as a record of behaviour fails because the same centuries produced a great deal of conduct that the code itself condemned, and an ideal states an aim rather than describing a practice.