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Kingdom of Heaven was rare in its refusal to go that way, and the role of the chivalric and bombastic Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani exemplified that approach.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Joe, lover of all things romantic, is not interested in romance as a genre — lowbrow, centered on female pleasure, exclusively published in paperback — but in romance as a chivalric gesture (women as conquests, men as heroes, all the books are leather-bound).
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
For the show, the duo built an office space embedded with silicone paintings full of chivalric symbols: the mirror, the castle, the knight, the enchanted woods.
—Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 7 Mar. 2025
But Don Quixote, which is often called the first modern novel, could not decisively break from the chivalric tradition without affirming its very real power to ensorcel the reader.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Joe, lover of all things romantic, is not interested in romance as a genre — lowbrow, centered on female pleasure, exclusively published in paperback — but in romance as a chivalric gesture (women as conquests, men as heroes, all the books are leather-bound).
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
For the show, the duo built an office space embedded with silicone paintings full of chivalric symbols: the mirror, the castle, the knight, the enchanted woods.
—Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 7 Mar. 2025
But Don Quixote, which is often called the first modern novel, could not decisively break from the chivalric tradition without affirming its very real power to ensorcel the reader.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Chivalric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chivalric. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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chivalric
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chi·val·ric
shə-ˈval-rik 
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