{"id":2963,"date":"2022-01-17T06:47:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2022-01-17T11:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T01:23:54","slug":"why-do-people-propose-on-one-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/why-do-people-propose-on-one-knee\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do people propose on one knee?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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1. In the Early Middle Ages (500 \u2013 1000 AD) in Europe, there were two ways a man could become a knight.<\/span><\/li>\n
2. The first was if fought bravely in a battle\/war and the king\/commander were happy.<\/span><\/li>\n
3. The second was by becoming an\u00a0<\/span>apprentice<\/span><\/a> to a knight (starting age 7, one had to stay with a knight to learn manners, bravery, horsemanship, and fighting, etc., and then prove himself).<\/span><\/li>\n
4. In either case, the honour’s recipient\u2014in a ceremony\u2014bent on one knee and bowed the head.<\/span><\/li>\n
5. And the King\/Queen or the Commander\u00a0<\/span>touched<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the recipient briefly on each shoulder with the Knighting sword.<\/span><\/li>\n
6. Once you were a knight, certain things were expected of you, one being chivalry\u2014the combination of qualities such as courage, honour, courtesy, justice, and a readiness to help the weak.<\/span><\/li>\n
7. Now, knights\u2014with their role model personalities\u2014 mostly stayed in castles.<\/span><\/li>\n
8. These castles also housed other men and women (very few).<\/span><\/li>\n
9. Chivalrous men with beautiful women (mostly married women) under the same roof stoked the imagination of the {tooltip}litt\u00e9rateurs{end-text}Writer of literary works{end-tooltip} of the time.<\/span><\/li>\n
10. And this gave birth to a fictional concept of {tooltip} “courtly love,” {end-text}The term itself was rarely used in medieval literature of any European language, but the concept came from the era.{end-tooltip} <\/span><\/li>\n
11. Courtly love dominated European literature around the 11th and 12th centuries.<\/span><\/li>\n
12. It was presented as an experience that was illicit (because most women were married) but uplifting (discipline, unconditional service to the lady).<\/span><\/li>\n
13. And it was centred around knights setting out on adventures and performing deeds for <\/span>their\u00a0<\/span><\/em>ladies.<\/span><\/li>\n
14. Initially, this fiction was created for the entertainment of the nobility, but gradually it attracted a larger audience.<\/span><\/li>\n
15. “Loving nobly” became popular, and then, several works of art featured a knight kneeling before the lady in devotion and respect.<\/span><\/li>\n
16. While the modern practice of kneeling is said to have started because of courtly love and related artworks, no conclusive links have yet been established between the two.<\/span><\/li>\n
17. This theory rules, therefore, because of the absence of any other theory.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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