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  1. Why are #Catholic men all throughout history so much in love with a woman who will never put out? Is this some sort of #medieval #chivalry thing or is there Something About #Mary?

  2. The Hedge Knight (A Game of Thrones) "Chivalry is not lost while Dunk holds fast to his dreams of honor" Sale: $7.99 to $2.99 by George R. R. Martin Rating: 4.5/5 (3,663 Reviews) #GameOfThrones #Fantasy #GraphicNovel #Chivalry #Medieval #Comics #BookSky

    The Hedge Knight (A Game of Th...

  3. Just finished the epic Don Quixote, the Edith Grossman translation. Very entertaining and readable. After a month of being immersed in tales of knights errant I will miss the company of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire Sancho Panza.

    #DonQuixote #SanchoPanza #classicliterature #literature #books #MigueldeCervantes #EdithGrossman #chivalry #knightserrant

  4. Just finished the epic Don Quixote, the Edith Grossman translation. Very entertaining and readable and often described as the first “modern” novel. After a month of being immersed in tales of knights errant I will miss the company of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire Sancho Panza.

    #DonQuixote #SanchoPanza #classicliterature #literature #books #MigueldeCervantes #EdithGrossman #chivalry #knightserrant

  5. Just finished the epic Don Quixote, the Edith Grossman translation. Very entertaining and readable and often described as the first “modern” novel. After a month of being immersed in tales of knights errant I will miss the company of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire Sancho Panza.

    #DonQuixote #SanchoPanza #classicliterature #literature #books #MigueldeCervantes #EdithGrossman #chivalry #knightserrant

  6. Just finished the epic Don Quixote, the Edith Grossman translation. Very entertaining and readable and often described as the first “modern” novel. After a month of being immersed in tales of knights errant I will miss the company of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire Sancho Panza.

    #DonQuixote #SanchoPanza #classicliterature #literature #books #MigueldeCervantes #EdithGrossman #chivalry #knightserrant

  7. Just finished the epic Don Quixote, the Edith Grossman translation. Very entertaining and readable. After a month of being immersed in tales of knights errant I will miss the company of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire Sancho Panza.

    #DonQuixote #SanchoPanza #classicliterature #literature #books #MigueldeCervantes #EdithGrossman #chivalry #knightserrant

  8. People who think #chivalry is dead don't realize that it's alive and well, they have always been in the wrong class for it to apply to them
  9. I’m afraid you DID drop something

    I want to pull some of the A+ content I’ve posted to Facebook over the years and put it somewhere that isn’t owned by a super-wealthy sociopath. You all who aren’t friends with me on Facebook (don’t friend me on Facebook) have no idea what kind of a treat you’re in for.

    Here’s a gem from October of 2011

    This morning I pulled up at a light on PA Ave in the cycletracks behind a woman on her bike. Her backpack had come open at some point, so of course I told her. As she turned to look, a bra fell out. She was already embarrassed by the whole thing, not knowing if she had lost anything, and I had to point out to her that she had, in fact, lost something. My question to you all is – was it more polite to let her pick it up, or should I have done it? I decided it was less embarrassing for her (and therefore more gentlemanly for me) to have the strange man she’s never met NOT touching her underclothes, even if she wasn’t wearing them. Do you agree?

    The rest of the comment from my dad that Facebook has “helpfully” hidden:

    There is simply no comfortable outcome in that situation, and you can only pick the least bad, and I think you did. The legend surrounding the establishment of the Order of the Garter is instructive (from Wikipedia: The most popular legend involves the “Countess of Salisbury” (probably either Edward’s future daughter-in-law Joan of Kent or her former mother-in-law, Catherine Montagu, Countess of Salisbury). While she was dancing with or near King Edward at Eltham Palace, her garter is said to have slipped from her leg. When the surrounding courtiers sniggered, the king picked it up and tied it to his own leg, exclaiming, “Honi soit qui mal y pense,” (“Shamed be the person who thinks evil of it.”). I suspect it takes a king to pull that off, though.

    I do not think he was implying that I should have picked up the bra and put it on. That would have made for quite a story, but likely not one that would reflect well on me.

    #biking #chivalry

  10. Currently on BBC Sounds: Melvyn Bragg & guests – Michael Boardman & Rhiannon Purdie of the University of St Andrews,, & Steve Boardman of the University of Edinburgh – discuss ideas of chivalry & freedom in John Barbour's c.1375 epic, the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots

    3/3

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dpm8

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage #chivalry

  11. A question for the Mastodon and Fediverse hive mind:

    Do you know of an online resource explaining more or less thoroughly the inner working of a knight's tournament during Middle Ages?

    Boosts welcomed to reach more people.

    #ElDadoInquieto #FediHelp #Help #Question #MiddleAges #Tournament #Knight #Chivalry #History #Boost #BoostWelcomed

  12. I just went to get blood drawn - like ya do - and not just one, but TWO men took chairs without offering them to me first.

    Is #chivalry dead? Would you give this lovely lady your seat?

    #transgender #lgbtq #AskAmethysta

  13. Torn Banner are closing the official Chivalry servers. (Master server will keep being available afaict.)

    steamcommunity.com/games/21964

    #chivalry

  14. Don #Quixote is main Spanish novel
    A "hidalgo", petty nobility in #Spain during our #GoldenAge,stops attending to his affairs while reading novels of #Chivalry: exploits and romances and loses his sense of reality
    He decides to go out armed on horseback to repair offenses and correct grievances.

  15. Don #Quixote is main Spanish novel
    A "hidalgo", petty nobility in #Spain during our #GoldenAge,stops attending to his affairs while reading novels of #Chivalry: exploits and romances and loses his sense of reality
    He decides to go out armed on horseback to repair offenses and correct grievances.

  16. Don #Quixote is main Spanish novel
    A "hidalgo", petty nobility in #Spain during our #GoldenAge,stops attending to his affairs while reading novels of #Chivalry: exploits and romances and loses his sense of reality
    He decides to go out armed on horseback to repair offenses and correct grievances.

  17. @oldmapgallery Thanks for taking me back to the imaginative adventures of my childhood! I have just been rereading some of the many wonderful tributes online, but this one by Brian Sibley is exceptional in so many ways... the range of her work was extraordinary, & there are delightful anecdotes here:
    web.archive.org/web/2009051007
    🙏 to the #WaybackMachine @internetarchive
    #PaulineBaynes #illustration #Tolkien #MiddleEarth #medieval #chivalry #FantasyArt