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If Chivalry Is Dead, Women Have Killed It
I am interested in the dual meaning of pattern. Pattern is a design format used for decoration. By introducing certain images into patterns, they have the ability to give meaning or messages. The repetition of a certain image emphasizes importance to a particular idea or issue. I embroider pattern …
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'Scarecrows of Chivalry': The Literature of Post -Imperial English Masculinity
"My project, ""Scarecrows of Chivalry: The Literature of Post-Imperial English Masculinity,"" establishes a genealogy for an imperially inflected code of English gentlemanliness and examines the literary mutations and revisions of this code in the period after empire. In order to understand both …
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Power, propaganda and subversion: Chivalry on the English Renaissance stage
… armored knights guided by a feudal code of chivalry were popular for only a brief period during the Renaissance. Yet this chivalric drama exerted an important influence in society, alternately supporting or undermining attempts by the monarch and nobility to employ chivalry as a means of …
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Chivalry and Romantic Love in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitane
… changes to France and England, and merged chivalry and romantic love. The poetry was influenced by a renewed enthusiasm for worship of the Virgin Mary and by the lyric quality of Hispano-Arabic poetry. Based on romance, it differed from epic poetry which was centered on adventures and …
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Chivalry: The Relation Between a Cultural Script and Stereotypes About Women
Chivalry is a cultural script prescribing the preferential treatment of women by men in the contexts of protection and provision. Although it is often regarded as a polite and prosocial script for male-female relations, chivalry is sometimes suspected of undermining efforts to promote equal status …
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Testing the selective chivalry theory in Iowa : gender sentencing of rural property offenders
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Malory's Lancelot: the Conflicts of Chivalry Based on a Source Study of Malory's Morte D'Arthur
The person of Sir Thomas Malory, author of Morte Darthur, has drawn much scholarly attention since the publication of William Caxton's first edition in 1485. Because Caxton was not specific about the author, scholars have speculated on Malory's true identity. Since the nineteenth century most …
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The Medieval Tournament: Chivalry, Heraldry and Reality. An Edition and Analysis of Three Fifteenth-Century Tournament Manuscripts
In the Royal Armouries collection is a codex comprising three fifteenth-century manuscripts in French. The codex is not only unpublished, it has never been transcribed or translated. The content is a primary source for the study of the medieval tournament as well as many other aspects of the elite …
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Chivalry and Crisis at the Court of Juan II of Castile: The Chivalric Writing of Alonso de Cartagena and his Contemporaries
… led to a corresponding crisis in Castilian chivalry as commentators at the royal court tried to correct the failings of the Castilian nobility. The study is based around the work of Alonso de Cartagena, an esteemed diplomat, translator and the Bishop of Burgos in the latter years of Juan …
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The Queen's Feud: Women and Kinship in Malory's <em>Morte Darthur</em>
… political system focused on individual chivalry after the founding of the Round Table. This study focuses on the feuds and political changes, which also swept up the women in and around the Round Table including Nynyve, Lyonesse, Guenivere, and Morgawse. Individual chivalry gives women …
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The Genesis and Variations of the Image of the Medieval Knight in Russian Literature of the Nineteenth Century: Breaking the Code of Chivalry
… that the breaking of the Western Code of Chivalry in the works of the above-mentioned writers is somewhat connected with the unaccomplished morphology of the Medieval Knight in Russian Literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Chivalric Culture and the Librairie du Louvre's Textual Community, 1368-1477
… that this community utilized books to transmit chivalry and, by extension, knightly masculinity. This dissertation argues that, through the Librairie du Louvre's textual community, one can study chivalry as a culture which did not exist only on the battlefield nor tournament ground, and which …
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Romance vs Novela. Recuperación y renovación de la materia caballeresca en la novela española del siglo XX: de Morsamor (1899) a Olvidado Rey Gudú
… of this research has been connecting the ancient chivalry plots with a group of modern Spanish novels, which present interesting and similar points of view, however important differences. It is pretended searching how the materials have been treated in similar ways, as well as how it has been …
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Forbidden Love: The Arabic Influence on the Courtly Love Poetry of Medieval Europe
… the pages of many of the courtly love tales of chivalry that came out of medieval Europe. The Iberian Peninsula, the meeting point of France and Spain (the Pyrenees), harbored an exchange of culture in the twelfth century; this thesis will explore the themes of forbidden love found in Arabian …
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Milton and romance: vernacular romance and chivalric traditions in Paradise Lost
… also examines the Caroline uses of romance and chivalry in the 1630s to provide a vision of British unification, and Milton's reaction to this political agenda.
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Women’s Voices in a Fourteenth-Century Chansonnier: Representation and Performance in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308
… de Chauvency, where women act as arbiters of chivalry during the day, and at night act in scenes that juxtapose courtly and popular culture through characters and intertextual references. Chansons de malmariée and chansons de nonne show religious women desiring love in higher and lower …
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The medieval Miles Christi and the Anabaptist knight : chivalric imagination in the Radical Reformation.
… I argue that the exploration of the influence of chivalry in Anabaptism acts as a lens by which to see the way that religious imagination spurred creative ways of conceptualizing religious ideas and identities, as well as displaying how key theological distinctives were brought to life through …
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The Complete Poems of Anne Bannerman
… </em>(1800), <em>Tales of Superstition and Chivalry </em>(1802), and <em>Poems, A New Edition </em>(1807). A comprehensive introduction provides information on Bannerman’s life and background, and examines her work in the context of British Romanticism, the Gothic, Scottish nationalism, and …
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