Definitionadj. characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
Last update: October 2, 2015
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This defect appears most strongly in his treatment of Joan of Arc; and the attack on Agnes Sorel seems to have been dictated by the dauphin (afterwards Louis XI.), then a refugee in Burgundy, of whom he was afterwards to become a severe critic. He was not, however, misled, as his more picturesque predecessor Froissart had been, by feudal and chivalric tradition into misconception of the radical injustice of the English cause in France; and except in isolated instances where Burgundian interests were at stake, he did full justice to the patriotism of Frenchmen. [Please select]
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_ =Chivalric Days:= Stories of Courtesy and Courage in the Olden Times. [Please select]
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And in the eyes of this chivalric court, this procedure "was all right." [Please select]
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Godfrey of Bouillon, duke of Lower Lorraine, took the lead in this chivalric and religious frenzy. [Please select]
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The dresses of both men and women at this chivalric epoch were of almost incredible expense. [Please select]
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Holding her hand with a chivalric, if slightly awkward, courtesy, he bent, and kissed her cheek. [Please select]
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He felt that he approached it with alluring and chivalric delicacy. [Please select]
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This is commonly the chivalric, still more the German view. [Please select]
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Nothing is better attested than the chivalric devotion to woman in a feudal castle. [Please select]
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The stimulating, quickening, liberalizing tendency of these chivalric enterprises was one of the most potent forces concerned in the mental movement we are tracing. [Please select]
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