Acknowledgments  I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the following people for their kind dedication and contributions to my thesis.
My great gratitude first goes to Associate Prof. , my supervisor, for her constant guidance and encouragement in the process of my writing. She offered me considerable and constructive practical and profound suggestions on the completion of my paper. Just under her careful and patient guidance, I begin to get a clear idea of the paper and fully frame it out.  Without her support and help, the completion of the present thesis is not possible.20583
Secondly, I would like to express my appreciation to the teachers who have ever taught me throughout my university years, especially Yuan Bing, my British and American Culture course teacher. Her rich knowledge of western cultures led me into the world of culture, and also inspired me to make efforts in English learning. I am also very grateful to all other teachers of the School of Foreign Languages who gave me direct or indirect help during my study in the SIT.
Last but not least, I give my sincere thanks to my classmates and roommates for their selfish encouragement, support, help, comments and wise advice.
Finally, I wish to devote this paper to my parents for their everlasting support and understanding that they have shown since I was born.
Abstract
It is well known that the chivalry originated from Europe, and during hundreds of years of history, it developed, changed and extended continuously, with the knight wind popular in Europe and the world, the chivalry influenced life and work of generations. In the time of several centuries, plenty of people show their great curiosity about medieval chivalry, but know little about the definition of knight and its development process, let alone the detailed contents of the chivalry.
The thesis presents readers with a general knowledge of the knight and the European medieval chivalry by telling the origin of the chivalry and its development history in the medieval times. What is more, through concretely introducing its influence on literature, daily life and marriage of today’ s world to readers, the paper explores the chivalry’s endless attractions, which will help people inherit and promote European medieval chivalry.
The paper falls into six parts. The first part serves as an introduction. The second part aims at detailed analysis to the situation of European politics, economy and religion. The third part elaborates knight’s emergence, development and decay. The fourth part tells the chivalry’s definition, development and change. The fifth part probes into the influence of the European medieval chivalry on today’s literature, marriage and lifestyle. The sixth part functions as a conclusion, which delivers briefly the writer’s personal views and outlook on the knight spirit in the future.
Key Words：knight, chivalry, origin, development, influence
摘要
众所周知，骑士精神源于古代欧洲，在数百年的历史中，不断发展，变化和延伸，由此带来的骑士之风在欧洲乃至世界风靡开来，影响了一代又一代人的生活和工作。数百年来，人们对中世纪的骑士精神充满了好奇，但对骑士的概念和存亡历程模糊不清，对骑士精神的具体内容等了解的较少。
本文通过对骑士精神的起源、它在中世纪的发展历程的记述，使人们对骑士和骑士精神有了初步的了解，通过详细介绍中世纪骑士精神对当今世界的文学、日常生活和婚姻的影响，使读者进一步了解到骑士精神的巨大魅力，这都有利于人们对欧洲中世纪骑士精神的传承和发扬。
本篇论文共分为优尔部分，第一部分是介绍；第二部分阐述了中世纪欧洲的政治、经济和宗教情况；第三部分主要阐述了骑士的起源、发展和消亡；第四部分讲述了骑士精神的概念、发展和变化；第五部分是欧洲中世纪骑士精神对当今世界的文学、以及人类的日常生活，婚姻等方面的影响；第优尔部分是论文结尾，简单介绍了作者对骑士精神的个人看法和它的未来发展前景。 浅析欧洲中世纪骑士精神:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_12420.html