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Literature and action. On Hegel’s interpretation of chivalry

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2019
Literature plays a relevant role in Hegel’s philosophical discourse. On the one hand, literary references are often interwoven with his speculative argumentation, on the other hand, the Aesthetics regards poetry as the highest form of artistic expression,
Giovanna Pinna
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Riders, Chivalry, and Knighthood in Tolkien [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This essay is a much extended version of the paper I gave at the IMC Leeds on 5 July 2017. It examines Tolkien’s complex attitude towards the concept(s) of chivalry and knighthood.
Honegger, Thomas
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“Those crazy knight-errants”: ideals and delusions in Arthur Conan Doyle’s portrait of a fourteenth century knight

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 2013
In The White Company (1891) and Sir Nigel (1906), Arthur Conan Doyle reconstructed the fourteenth century and explored the culture and visions of chivalry.
Antonio José Miralles Pérez
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

Chivalry in Shakespeare: How the Great Playwright Reveals the Code of Conduct [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Today’s society understands chivalry in a vastly different context than how chivalry was originally understood in the 14th and 15th centuries. For this reason, it is crucial to turn to literature concerning the time period and people that were expected ...
Goldsmith, Anna
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

Ofermod and Aristocratic Chivalry in J.R.R. Tolkien\u27s The Lord of the Rings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper explores connections between J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1953 Essays and Studies publication The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son and representations of ofermod and aristocratic “chivalry” in The Lord of the Rings.
Dunai, Amber
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A Study on Social Features of Chivalry in Khorasan from 624-627 (A.C) [PDF]

open access: yesتحقیقات تاریخ اجتماعی, 2013
Chivalry rituals, is one of the lasting traditions in Iran’s history, from old ages to now. In spite of influence and expansion of this way of life, most of researchs relevant to this issue mainly ignored social-economical features of it.
Hamid Karami Pour
doaj  

Acting Up and Pushing Back: A Qualitative Study Exploring Women Workers' Resistance to Gender Inequalities in the UK Craft Beer Scene

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The production, sale, and consumption of alcohol remains highly gendered, and although the craft beer sector has positioned itself as prioritizing progressive values, recent studies indicate that women are still excluded from the craft beer sector.
Amanda Atkinson, Thomas Thurnell‐Read
wiley   +1 more source

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