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Twilight’s Edward Cullen, first introduced in 2005, was the chivalric corrective to a wasteland of Girls Gone Wild–style masculinity.
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
Eight hundred years after Shota Rustaveli wrote The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, the definitive work of Georgian literature, the country had discovered a new chivalric hero.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 29 May 2026
David Lowery is an adventurous director, alternating studio material like Pete’s Dragon, The Old Man & the Gun and Peter Pan & Wendy with pleasingly idiosyncratic projects like the poetic mood piece about time and loss, A Ghost Story, or the imaginative chivalric fantasy, The Green Knight.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026
Because the feudal courts, chivalric codes, and aristocratic patronage that had sustained it were gone.
—Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
Eight hundred years after Shota Rustaveli wrote The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, the definitive work of Georgian literature, the country had discovered a new chivalric hero.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 29 May 2026
David Lowery is an adventurous director, alternating studio material like Pete’s Dragon, The Old Man & the Gun and Peter Pan & Wendy with pleasingly idiosyncratic projects like the poetic mood piece about time and loss, A Ghost Story, or the imaginative chivalric fantasy, The Green Knight.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026
Because the feudal courts, chivalric codes, and aristocratic patronage that had sustained it were gone.
—Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
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“Chivalric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chivalric. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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chivalric
adjective
chi·val·ric
shə-ˈval-rik 
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