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But Don Quixote, which is often called the first modern novel, could not decisively break from the chivalric tradition without affirming its very real power to ensorcel the reader.
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Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
However, their tragic love story has formed the basis of our current cultural conception of chivalric love.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2024
In November 2014, Francis removed Cardinal Burke from his position as the head of the Vatican’s highest court and instead named him to a largely ceremonial post for the medieval Roman Catholic chivalric religious order, the Knights of Malta.
—Ruth Graham, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Gustave Doré's depiction of Don Quixote amid his fantasies of chivalric romance, the frontispiece to the 1863 Paris Hachette edition.
—Ilan Stavans, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
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Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
However, their tragic love story has formed the basis of our current cultural conception of chivalric love.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2024
In November 2014, Francis removed Cardinal Burke from his position as the head of the Vatican’s highest court and instead named him to a largely ceremonial post for the medieval Roman Catholic chivalric religious order, the Knights of Malta.
—Ruth Graham, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Gustave Doré's depiction of Don Quixote amid his fantasies of chivalric romance, the frontispiece to the 1863 Paris Hachette edition.
—Ilan Stavans, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
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“Chivalric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chivalric. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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chivalric
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chi·val·ric
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