This is no romantic and idealistic battle for higher principles, fought by a moral and ethical aristocratic elite according to chivalric rules. |
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They range from singingly chivalric to the unaffected generous, pleasurable additions to the lighter repertoire. |
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But the elevated, even chivalric, tone in which it is being conducted scarcely even masks its onesided and ignoble purpose. |
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It examines chivalric ritual and tournament, much of which took place at Greenwich. |
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He had a taste for poetry and song, and he generally lived up to the chivalric code. |
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Cervantes, in Don Quixote, parodies not just the chivalric romances of his day but also its literary structures through a new poetry of language. |
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But clerical disapproval did not undermine the appeal of chivalric culture, with its glorification of courage, loyalty, and military ability. |
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Such concepts were derived partly from the feudal and chivalric traditions in which land was held from the Crown in exchange for the performance of military duties. |
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Most northern chapters of the chivalric orders had salles like this one, and the weather raging outside the thick walls reminded Charrow of why that was. |
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The gold buckle in base is an ancient type of belt buckle, which symbolizes the chivalric honour legacy of the Middle Ages. |
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During the Golden Age such late medieval and early Renaissance forms as the chivalric and pastoral novels underwent their final flowering. |
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The chivalric principles described in this philosophy made their followers models for our modern societies. |
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Spirituality is the source of strength and hence the foundation of the daily exercise of chivalric virtues by the members of the Order. |
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It may simply be a parody of chivalric romances, as it claims to be. |
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The tyranny associated by Renaissance humanists with the age of chivalric knights and with the knight figure caused romances that heroize the bygone age to fall into disfavor. |
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She has read some of the chivalric romances and says she can handle it. |
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She talks at length about the ways in which women achieve honour and respect, and the ways in which the chivalric code can be applied to everyday life. |
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Young Henry, though, was ever feckless and irresponsible, concerned to cut a fine chivalric figure but utterly uninterested in the serious business of government. |
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The tradition represents the chivalric spirit, strength, courage, generosity and hospitality associated with Bedouins. |
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Don Quixote is the great chivalric egotist, never more egotistical than when he appears to be most chivalrous. |
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The Sinjska Alka is a chivalric tournament that takes place annually, as it has since 1717, in the town of Sinj, in the Cetinska krajina region. |
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All the new knights were appointed for their chivalric reputations. |
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This was in stark contrast to the contemporary views on chivalric warfare which were characterized by strength of arms and knightly combat. |
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These were courtly chivalric games rather than actual pledges as in the case of the fraternal orders. |
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It is the symbol of the Order of the Thistle, a high chivalric order of Scotland. |
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He was also educated in penmanship, chivalric exercises, and some legal traditions. |
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It is a parody of the romantic, chivalric aspects of knighthood and a criticism of contemporary social structures and societal norms. |
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The old chivalric code and a more modern code of honour reveals itself in Stuart literature and the behaviour of quite unquixotic Englishmen. |
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However, novels slowly divested themselves of the Arthurian and chivalric trappings and came to centre on more ordinary or picaresque figures. |
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One concerns Camelot, usually envisioned as a doomed utopia of chivalric virtue, undone by the fatal flaws of Arthur and Sir Lancelot. |
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Surrey's conduct of the ensuing battle, characterized by his arrogant and unimaginative adherence to chivalric convention, was inept. |
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Parallel to the military developments emerged also a constantly more elaborate chivalric code of conduct for the warrior class. |
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Medieval European writers, unacquainted with Homer firsthand, found in the Troy legend a rich source of heroic and romantic storytelling and a convenient framework into which to fit their own courtly and chivalric ideals. |
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From a few of these lodges developed modern symbolic or speculative Freemasonry, which particularly in the 17th and 18th centuries, adopted the rites and trappings of ancient religious orders and of chivalric brotherhoods. |
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It is here that Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan made landfall in 1520, encountering the tall Tehuelche tribesmen whom he called Patagones, after a mythical character in a chivalric tale, leading to the region's name. |
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Tim Pye, the exhibition's lead curator, argues that the genre dovetailed with a renewed interest in a romantic, chivalric British past this was the era of the great Gaelic literary forgeries by the likes of Thomas Chatterton. |
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Along with a preoccupation in literature with death and damnation, there appeared a contrasting refinement of expression and sentiment bred of nostalgia for the courtly, chivalric ideal. |
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The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem is hospitaller in accordance with its spiritual and chivalric traditions, which require care for all people irrespective of race, religion or belief. |
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The puppeteers told stories based on medieval chivalric literature and other sources, such as Italian poems of the Renaissance, the lives of saints and tales of notorious bandits. |
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A new advert, 'Rescue', was broadcast, and new versions of the 'Shadows' concept were launched, pairing contemporary chivalric figures with their 'shadows' from the past. |
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The members of devotion, known as professed knights, are those who choose to perfect their chivalric investiture through the practice of a rule of life adapted for lay persons. |
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The chivalric orders gain new members according to their own statues through accolades in the framework of festive ceremonial events following a successfully performed period on trial. |
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The Order of Saint Lazarus was the only chivalric organisation caring for the needs of lepers, outcasts who roamed the Near East and Europe throughout the Middle Ages. |
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Democracy is an opportunity to give the chivalric ideal true meaning. |
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The minimum age for admission to the chivalric ranks is 21 years. |
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It is known that Dante was a member of the Faithful of Love, an initiatory secret brotherhood that shared the chivalric values of the Order of the Temple. |
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He met contemporary expectations of kingship in his role as an able, determined soldier and in his embodiment of shared chivalric ideals. |
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By the 15th century English chivalric ideas of selfless service to the king had been corrupted. |
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In the context of the crusades, monastic military orders were founded that would become the template for the late medieval chivalric orders. |
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Hereward is always motivated by honest emotions and displays chivalric values in his warfare, unlike his enemies. |
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Music and minstrels were very popular at Edward's court, but hunting appears to have been a much less important activity, and there was little emphasis on chivalric events. |
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Some organisations claim to be chivalric orders but are actually private membership organisations that have not been created by a state or a reigning monarch. |
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The thistle is an ancient Celtic symbol of nobility of character as well as of birth and is the symbol of the Order of the Thistle a high chivalric order of Scotland. |
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Romance or chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. |
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The most important romance of the 13th century is the Romance of the Rose which breaks considerably from the conventions of the chivalric adventure story. |
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His reading included chivalric romances, poems, history and travel books. |
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Romance or chivalric romance is a type of narrative in prose or verse popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. |
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