chivalry

Examples of chivalric

chivalric
This was reflected in the proliferation of printed material celebrating military life ranging from sermons for military societies and chivalric romances to newsbooks, martial memoirs, and manuals on bearing arms.
Recent discussions of honour have focused on chivalric flamboyance, or gender-based variations, or humanist virtue, or assertion of birth, blood, and status, or loyalty, as essential elements in its definition.
Norton, however, oscillates between the two bodies, to create the binary code of superiority and dependence required by chivalric discourse.
Redolent with chivalric associations, they draw on an aristocratic tradition of ritualized imperial masculinity that necessarily excludes the vulgar presence of the wounded body of the common soldier.
It is true that the complex of values that underlay the new discourse of gentility centered on male behavior, as in the original chivalric ideal.
These qualities may sound not only obvious but also grist for a ' chivalric ' interpretation of civil war culture.
These may appear to hark back to a chivalric view of war, but although they often had a chivalric descent they had substantive effects.
The disloyalty here, to his own people certainly, is however to a religious and chivalric, rather than a colonialist, ethic.
He sounds like a master inducting to a chivalric order, a crack regiment or a society of samurai.
The speaker's subjectivity is permeated by domestic and chivalric memories (she is bound by "mighty spells") located in legends and the history of this site.
The chivalric pose becomes recognizable as the symptom of a gender principle in distress, as well as the last best hope for that principle's resuscitation.
Parole seems at first sight a highly chivalric, even quixotic, institution.
The domination and condescension implicit in chivalric discourse can rarely have been so disarmingly admitted.
The pastoral emerges as a nexus of impulses, including epicurean licence, nostalgic escapism, sentimental heroism and chivalric ritual.
His explanation for the difference is that the romances 'reflect' the interests of chivalric aristocracy.
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