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This is no romantic and idealistic battle for higher principles, fought by a moral and ethical aristocratic elite according to chivalric rules.
They range from singingly chivalric to the unaffected generous, pleasurable additions to the lighter repertoire.
But the elevated, even chivalric, tone in which it is being conducted scarcely even masks its onesided and ignoble purpose.
It examines chivalric ritual and tournament, much of which took place at Greenwich.
He had a taste for poetry and song, and he generally lived up to the chivalric code.
Cervantes, in Don Quixote, parodies not just the chivalric romances of his day but also its literary structures through a new poetry of language.
But clerical disapproval did not undermine the appeal of chivalric culture, with its glorification of courage, loyalty, and military ability.
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.
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.
The gold buckle in base is an ancient type of belt buckle, which symbolizes the chivalric honour legacy of the Middle Ages.
During the Golden Age such late medieval and early Renaissance forms as the chivalric and pastoral novels underwent their final flowering.
The chivalric principles described in this philosophy made their followers models for our modern societies.
Spirituality is the source of strength and hence the foundation of the daily exercise of chivalric virtues by the members of the Order.
It may simply be a parody of chivalric romances, as it claims to be.
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.
She has read some of the chivalric romances and says she can handle it.
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.
Young Henry, though, was ever feckless and irresponsible, concerned to cut a fine chivalric figure but utterly uninterested in the serious business of government.
The tradition represents the chivalric spirit, strength, courage, generosity and hospitality associated with Bedouins.
Don Quixote is the great chivalric egotist, never more egotistical than when he appears to be most chivalrous.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Frontiersmen are, I think, really spirits strayed out of chivalric ages into our century of all vulgarities.
The French regle elaborates the military organization and enhances the chivalric element.
This chivalric deed touched whatever there was of chivalry in the savage bosom.
In a passage of surpassing beauty Fletcher has described the characters of the chivalric and the carpet knight.
I suppose you think your proposition very grand and chivalric.
For what the Tiber is to the classic, the Rhine is to the chivalric age.
He felt that he approached it with alluring and chivalric delicacy.
Is it any wonder that the Kentuckians are brave and chivalric?
And, true to the chivalric model, Don Quixote dedicates his actions of valor to a noble love whom he calls Dulcinea.
To defeat the Crescent was the highest ideal of that chivalric age.
This American was just the kind of chivalric fool to accept a challenge.
Give me your peerless dignity, your noble and chivalric courtesy!
The Prussians are by no means a chivalric race, in the etymologic sense.
But it is a great mistake to suppose that such houses stand high in chivalric tradition.
An outsider by temperament as well as geography, he is clearly much happier in the chivalric role of redeemer.
The dauphiness, in essence, is equated forcefully with the wardrobe of chivalric custom.
Bonacieux, the respectable martyr of the political and amorous intrigues which entangled themselves so nicely together at this gallant and chivalric period.
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