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[25]: 93–97 While the worldview of "those who work" (the burgeoning merchant class and bourgeoisie) was still in incubation, Kaeuper states that the social and economic class that would end up defining modernity was fundamentally at odds with knights, and those with chivalrous valor saw the values of commerce as beneath them. Those who ...
Osberne Wulfgrimsson and Elfhild are lovers who live on opposite sides of the Sundering Flood, an immense river, which they cannot cross. When Elfhild disappears during an invasion by the Red Skinners, the heartbroken Osberne takes up his magical sword Board-cleaver and joins the army of Sir Godrick of Longshaw, in whose service he helps dethrone the tyrannical king and plutocracy of merchants ...
Domnei or donnoi is an Old Provençal term meaning the attitude of chivalrous devotion of a knight to his Lady, which was mainly a non-physical and non-marital relationship. "The Accolade" by Edmund Blair Leighton, painted in 1901, clearly expresses the concept of Domnei
Illustration by Gustave Doré depicting the famous windmill scene of Don Quixote, in which the hero fights with windmills, which he imagines to be giants.. Quixotism (/ k w ɪ k ˈ s ɒ t ɪ z əm / or / k iː ˈ h oʊ t ɪ z əm /; adj. quixotic) is impracticality in pursuit of ideals, especially those ideals manifested by rash, lofty and romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action. [1]
His work on Frederick is of opposite tone, being an optimistic portrayal of the glorious potentials of imperial authority. [22] [23] Otto died after finishing the first two books, leaving the last two to Rahewin, his provost. Rahewin's text is in places heavily dependent on classical precedent. [24]
A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms.The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin.
Nemo; The captain of the Nautilus II and son of the original Captain Nemo. He is calm and collected, chivalrous, fearless. Though he does have a bit of a weakness when it comes to the opposite sex, due to the fact he's had very little exposure to them at sea.
Mademoiselle Cloque (French pronunciation: [madmwazɛl klɔk], Miss Cloque) is a French novel of manners by René Boylesve published in 1899.. The fifth novel of René Boylesve, tells against the backdrop of a religious quarrel in Tours in the 1880s, the last three years of the life of an idealistic and chivalrous old lady, who ardently wishes the reconstruction of a large basilica dedicated ...