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Boiardo and Ariosto recount meetings with anthropophagists among the adventures of their knightly heroes.
In fact this was a two-way movement, with junior members of knightly or armigerous county families taking an interest in towns and trade.
In theory, knightly honour allowed only two alternatives, death or capture.
As the name suggests it concerns itself with chivalry, honour and knightly contests.
Features of a knightly ruling class still indirectly influence Hispanic societies, including those in the United States.
This implicit parallel of clerkly and knightly service recalls the linking of clerkliness and chivalry in the notion of translatio studii et imperii.
Since then, he's donned a fair bit of knightly armour, and found his cavalry racing over the hills.
No doubt in response to this, heraldry emerged during this period and the armorial surcoat became a standard item of knightly dress.
The earliest knightly plate armour appeared shortly after 1200 in the form of thin plates worn beneath the gambeson.
Guidons were borne by leaders in battle who were of no more than knightly rank and so not entitled to display a banner.
They find among the tumbled castles and buried swords of the Middle Ages a code called knightly honour, for which they pine.
Their duty never had at any time anything to do with the romantic ideal of knightly combat.
Opera dei Pupi Sicilian Puppet Theatre, submitted by Italy, representing knightly epics and sagas of mythological origin.
For the audience attentive and involved, the knightly puppet tells about his deeds and courage.
In his brilliant time was the knighthood and was his advancement, the knightly orders, a deliberate attempt of the élite education.
The original medieval knightly order had been destroyed during the French Revolution and was reestablished only in 1921 in France.
Born around 1200 into the knightly society, he later was promoted to court poet of the Staufer dynasty because of his good education.
It is expressed in the votive paintings, in the barrows and in the representation of the knightly and epic cycle.
The knightly class soon ceased to be purely professional soldiers and became landed proprietors in their own right, acting as seigneurs or lords of the manor.
It was possible for young men of relatively low status to make a mark through their prowess, but in general the participants were already of noble or at least knightly birth.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Father John of Gatesden boldly throws aside alb and chasuble to don the knightly hauberk and chausses in good earnest.
Chancellor Badew was a member of the Chelmsford knightly family of that name.
You will remember, Sir John, that you pledged me your knightly word for that.
His six elder sons did likewise, and all were famed for their knightly prowess.
Those around mistook it for that knightly courtesy of which there was none in him.
The enchanted stone has long been in the possession of the knightly family of the Lockharts of Lee, in lanarkshire.
He was but twenty, yet he had achieved a squire's training and could play prettily in jousts and tournaments and other knightly games.
I may not part from thee until in knightly encounter in the field some overmatching champion shall fairly win and fairly wear me.
There was much pomp and ceremony attached to these knightly exercises.
And in recent years, he has occasionally fallen into what might be called the knightly style, where mellifluousness modulates into orotundity.
He was of knightly blood, but has died in a most unknightly business.
We entered Nerac as tillers of the soil, we ride out in knightly fashion.
This dignity and these knightly graces suggest the tournament, not the prize-fight.
But still we honor valor and courage and knightly and noble deeds.
The King, it is said, enfeoffed his nobles with possession of land in return for a pledge of knightly service.
Therefore, according to Venturell, the overall program of the Sala del Bacio is at once a knightly myth and a spiritual allegory.
There is no affectation of elegance, but rather knightly straightforwardness which has power without lack of ease.
The caparison of the knightly steed appears to have been of five kinds.
Those were the knightly days of our profession, when we only bore arms to succor the distressed, and not to fill men's lamp-feeders.
It is a most knightly largesse, and yet withouten money how can man rise?
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