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chivalry
chivalry The code of behaviour practised in the Middle Ages, especially in the 12th and 13th centuries, by the mounted soldier or knight. The chivalric ethic represented the fusion of Christian and military concepts of conduct. A knight was to be brave, loyal to his lord, and the protector of women. The songs of the
TROUBADOURS celebrated these virtues.
It was a system of apprenticeship: as boys, knights' sons became pages in the castles of other knights; from the age of 14 they learnt horsemanship and military skills, and were themselves knighted at the age of 21. The
CRUSADES saw the apogee of the chivalric ideal, as new Christian orders of knights (
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS;
KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS), waged war in
PALESTINE against the Muslims. During times of peace, the tournament was the setting for displays of military and equestrian skill. The 15th century saw a decline in the real value of chivalry, and though new orders, such as the Order of the Golden Fleece (Burgundy) were created, tournaments survived merely as ritualized ceremonies.
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Chivalry.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Chivalry. By Maurice Keen. (New Haven, Conn...There has been much research on war and chivalry in the past twenty years, so how well...1) Like Flori, Keen concludes that chivalry was essentially a secular code little...
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COLUMN: Chivalry may be under fire, but its ideals are right in place
News Wire article from: University Wire; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...all too serious. I'm talking about chivalry, and the assault modern feminism has...women's liberation movement has stifled chivalry in the name of equality and justice...me remind you I'm not talking about chivalry as it was practiced in its medieval inception...
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Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Frantzen, Alien. Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War. Chicago...plates, 350pp. $35.00 hardcover. Chivalry died in the trenches of World War I...obliterated traditional notions of military chivalry. This is the conventional wisdom Alien...
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The Bridge; Chivalry and Tradition -- A Black Perspective
Newspaper article from: Los Angeles Sentinel; 8/24/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Sentinel 08-24-2005 In it's purest definition, Chivalry is truly dead. Chivalry refers to the code of ethics and conduct of a...while men discuss how women have been rejecting Chivalry. Feminism taught that displays of Chivalry were...
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Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe. By Richard...book. It really ought to be called "Chivalry and Violence in England and France in...Germany, or Italy--all of which had both chivalry and violence in ample measure. The title...
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Racing: Chivalry's win is one for turf's old timers.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England); 10/5/2003; 661 words
; Byline: BILL KNIGHT CHIVALRY landed an extraordinary success for...Sir Mark Prescott's cigar separated Chivalry and flying finisher Adiemus and in...touch of olden times about this win as Chivalry hadn't raced in almost a year and...
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COLUMN: Male chivalry a lost tradition; keep kindness alive
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/26/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of women if they felt that male chivalry was dead. Almost the whole room...in agreement. "That's right, chivalry is dead," Chapelle said. "And...honest, women didn't really kill chivalry. At least not all of them. Chivalry...
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Chivalry pays for Sir Mark Prescott's legendary training skill is underlined yet again with a last-gasp victory in the Tote Cambridgeshire
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/5/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the ageless George Duffield stretched Chivalry over the line in the narrowest of photo...Pasternak, whose owner Graham Rock owned Chivalry until his death and about whom Prescott...Newmarket. Landing another coup with Chivalry first time out should have been impossible...
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 "St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)")
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DID CHIVALRY GO DOWN WITH THE TITANIC?(Everyday Magazine)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 3/17/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...correctness and incivility. Looking for chivalry? Take a cruise, or take in a showing...sacrificed their lives in the spirit of chivalry. There are widely differing views on...Yet many still firmly believe that chivalry lives. Asked how they define the concept...
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Spanish and Portuguese Romances of Chivalry
Magazine article from: Fifteenth Century Studies; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Spanish and Portuguese Romances of Chivalry. New York: Columbia University Press...separate chapter, he considers novels of chivalry in England. Thomas discusses the criteria...on Spanish and Portuguese romances of chivalry at the University of Cambridge during...
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chivalry
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
chivalry , system of ethical ideals that arose...the chief arena in which the virtues of chivalry could be proved. The code of chivalrous...be the last embodiment of the ideals of chivalry. In practice, chivalric conduct was...
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Chivalry
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
108. Chivalry Amadis of Gaul personification of chivalric...nephew; model of knightly perfection and chivalry. [Br. Lit.: Sir Gawain and the Green...Arthur ’ s realm; model of chivalry. [Br. Lit.: Le Morte d ’...
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Southern Chivalry and the Case of the Century
Book article from: American Eras
Southern Chivalry and the Case of the Century Colonial Elite. The Randolphs were Virginia ’ s largest and most prominent family. The...
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Modern Chivalry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Modern Chivalry, satirical picaresque novel by H.H. Brackenridge . The first two parts were published in 1792, the third and fourth in 1793...
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Book of Celestial Chivalry
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Book of Celestial Chivalry A work of Spanish origin that appeared in the middle of the sixteenth century. It documents supposed knightly adventures in a semi-romantic, semi-mystical vein.
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