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    As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern...
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    with the medieval ideal of chivalry as set out in the literature of chivalric romance. People who experience little to no romantic attraction are referred...
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    and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism...
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    Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220. It is associated with the medieval...
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    first appears in Perceval, the Story of the Grail, an unfinished chivalric romance written by Chrétien de Troyes around 1190. Chrétien's story inspired...
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    the Iberian Peninsula. However, the in-statement of chivalric knightly orders and the chivalric ideals and codes of conduct weren’t present on the Iberian...
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    the roles of a protagonist or eponymous hero in various works of chivalric romance. Other well-known members of the Round Table include the holy knight...
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    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (category Romance (genre))
    English stories, as well as the French chivalric tradition. It is an important example of a chivalric romance, which typically involves a hero who goes...
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    in the late medieval notion of chivalry, as reflected in the chivalric romances of the time. The creation of chivalric orders was fashionable among the...
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    classical mythology and classical history. Its pseudo-chronicle and chivalric romance works, written both in prose and verse, flourished from the 12th to...
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    Ivanhoe (redirect from Ivanhoe: A Romance)
    Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin, with inspiring increased interest in chivalric romance and medievalism. As John Henry Newman put it, Scott "had first turned...
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    Knight-errant (category Romance (genre))
    A knight-errant (or knight errant) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. The adjective errant (meaning "wandering, roving") indicates...
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    Don Quixote (category Chivalry)
    who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation...
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  • Eastern Europe Scientific romance, an archaic term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction Chivalric romance literature, a branch of...
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  • issue as "the proverb about King Arthur killing the cat". The oldest chivalric romance in Spanish, The Book of the Knight Zifar speaks of a perilous situation...
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    and the Golden Legend. At first limited to the courtly setting of Chivalric romance, the legend was popularised in the 13th century and became a favourite...
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    century. The novel is a sequel to a popular fifteenth century set of chivalric romance novels, Amadís de Gaula. The novel achieved particular notability...
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  • Romance literature may refer to: Chivalric romance, a style of heroic prose and verse narrative current in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance...
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    being entirely fictional, its unspecified geography being perfect for chivalric romance writers. Nevertheless, arguments about the location of the "real Camelot"...
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    Guinevere, vary greatly. In a popular telling originating from the French chivalric romances of the 13th century, and made prominent today through its inclusion...
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  • than subtle philosophy." As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular...
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    combining fantasy and romance, describing a fantasy story using many of the elements and conventions of the chivalric romance genre. One of the key features...
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    further greatly embellished variants originate from the later French chivalric romance tradition, in which it became known as the Battle of Salisbury, and...
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    between romance and "fantasy", something which arises in particular because of the relationship between this type of novel and medieval chivalric romances. The...
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    13th-century Middle High German chivalric romance Parzival of the Minnesänger Wolfram von Eschenbach and the Old French chivalric romance Perceval ou le Conte du...
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    also known as Tristan and Isolde and other names, is a medieval chivalric romance told in numerous variations since the 12th century. Based on a Celtic...
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    Knight, and The Weddynge of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell. In Arthurian chivalric romance literature, Gawain is usually depicted as King Arthur's closest companion...
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  • Perceforest (category Medieval French romances)
    Perceforest or Le Roman de Perceforest is an anonymous prose chivalric romance, written in French probably around 1340 with lyrical interludes of poetry...
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    1505) was a Castilian author who arranged the modern version of the chivalric romance Amadís de Gaula, originally written in three books in the 14th century...
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  • very high esteem. The Picaresque novel stands in contrast to the Chivalric romance. The pastoral novel is of Italian origin, like the sentimental novel...
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