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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.
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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
The nuanced set of rules resembles a chivalric code, positioning the players as modern-day knights protecting their brethren.
—Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
Cruise, still in love with what big mainstream movies used to be, has become a chivalric dreamer, striving to ensure their survival by sheer will.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 July 2023
Most of the writers attempting to imitate Tolkien weren’t steeped in the rhythm of Old English kennings, or the spiritual yearning of chivalric romance.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
Team Herodotus, meanwhile, struggled on with the Christian chroniclers of the new European nations: Froissart on the chivalric slaughters of the Crusades, Geoffrey of Monmouth on the mythical origins of the English. Machiavelli’s revival of the Greek method was a heresy.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 20 May 2022
What appeared new in Calvino’s novels was, in truth, a resurrection of something considerably older: a romantic simplicity nurtured by a devotion to the archetypes of epic and chivalric literature.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
In these later romances, Arthur fully becomes a literary, as opposed to pseudohistorical, figure — a symbol of chivalric virtue, and of the inevitable (but still heartbreaking) failure of utopian dreams.
—Jack Feerick, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2021
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
The nuanced set of rules resembles a chivalric code, positioning the players as modern-day knights protecting their brethren.
—Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
Cruise, still in love with what big mainstream movies used to be, has become a chivalric dreamer, striving to ensure their survival by sheer will.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 July 2023
Most of the writers attempting to imitate Tolkien weren’t steeped in the rhythm of Old English kennings, or the spiritual yearning of chivalric romance.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
Team Herodotus, meanwhile, struggled on with the Christian chroniclers of the new European nations: Froissart on the chivalric slaughters of the Crusades, Geoffrey of Monmouth on the mythical origins of the English. Machiavelli’s revival of the Greek method was a heresy.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 20 May 2022
What appeared new in Calvino’s novels was, in truth, a resurrection of something considerably older: a romantic simplicity nurtured by a devotion to the archetypes of epic and chivalric literature.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
In these later romances, Arthur fully becomes a literary, as opposed to pseudohistorical, figure — a symbol of chivalric virtue, and of the inevitable (but still heartbreaking) failure of utopian dreams.
—Jack Feerick, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2021
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“Chivalric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chivalric. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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