The article demonstrates the performative character of chivalric
culture portrayed in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur.
Yet the complexities of noble life appear most clearly in the inability of nobles to find a single chivalric
code to govern their behavior.
Yet as Giuseppe Pitre discussed in the late nineteenth century and Antonio Pasqualino further elaborated in the second half of the twentieth, the chivalric
matter in Italian puppetry is based on a full range of medieval and Renaissance works that in 1858-1860 were rendered into a 3000 page prose version by the Sicilian Giusto Lo Dico, as well as on sequels to Lo Dico's compilation and original chivalric
Palomydes and other lesser knightly characters, depict how those who seek invisibility or who are invisible due to their lack of visibility to their female love interests can only partake partially in the narrative of male chivalric
Armstrong contends that in Malory's version the Arthurian realm is undermined and eventually destroyed by 'the progressively degenerative results produced by the model of gender installed as a foundational support of the chivalric
community in the early pages of the text' (p.
After a review of its literary depth (the speech proves that Don Quijote is steeped in traditions created and recreated by Ariosto, Tasso, Guarini, and Sannazaro, as well as the Bible and the Ancients), he stresses the speech's convergence of the chivalric
and pastoral in the myth itself, where the blending of the two would bring about a new conception of chivalry.
An outsider by temperament as well as geography, he is clearly much happier in the chivalric
role of redeemer.
A schoolteacher in the old town of Soro , he acquired a lively sense of the past and a love for the ancient chivalric
It discusses chivalry and knights; arms and armor and how medieval weapons were a product of their society and the battlefield; techniques of chivalric
combat; differences and similarities between war, battle, and tournaments, and the strategies of waging war; the medieval economy and how lords funded wars; women and warfare, particularly women as combatants; conquest and colonization; and comparisons of passages from A Song of Ice and Fire with translations of medieval chronicles.
Archipelagoes; insular fictions from chivalric
romance to the novel.
Among their topics are treasonous and dishonorable conduct: the private dimension of treason and chivalric
reform in late medieval Florence, royal punishment and reconciliation in Trastamara Castile, blessed betrayal: the opportunity of treachery in Anglo-Latin ecclesiastical texts, treacherous women at King Arthur's court: punishment and shame, and the spatial configuration of shame in La Princesse de Cleves.
The overarching thesis of Lorca's monograph is that Cervantes wrote Part I of his masterpiece to underscore the dangers of reading chivalric
romances as an authoritative genre.