It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, and on all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield. Why am I alive? Where was I before I was born? What will happen to me when I die? Whatever well our lives are drawn from, it is deep, wild, mysterious, and unknowable. "Rules for a Knight" is many things: a code of ethics; an intimate record of a lifelong quest; a careful recounting of a knight s hardest won lessons, deepest aspirations, and most richly instructive failures; and an artifact, a relic of a father s exquisite love. Drawing on the ancient teachings of Eastern and Western philosophy and religion, on...
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