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Sort of like if Don Quixote was 1/10th its length and about YouTube videos instead of chivalric romances.
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Teddy Wayne
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
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 2025
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.
—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
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Teddy Wayne
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
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 2025
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.
—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
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“Chivalric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chivalric. Accessed 25 Jun. 2025.
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chivalric
adjective
chi·val·ric
shə-ˈval-rik 
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