| They range from singingly chivalric to the unaffected generous, pleasurable additions to the lighter repertoire. |
| But clerical disapproval did not undermine the appeal of chivalric culture, with its glorification of courage, loyalty, and military ability. |
| Cervantes, in Don Quixote, parodies not just the chivalric romances of his day but also its literary structures through a new poetry of language. |
| This is no romantic and idealistic battle for higher principles, fought by a moral and ethical aristocratic elite according to chivalric rules. |
| During the Golden Age such late medieval and early Renaissance forms as the chivalric and pastoral novels underwent their final flowering. |
| Don Quixote is the great chivalric egotist, never more egotistical than when he appears to be most chivalrous. |
