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chivalry

chivalry  

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The medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code; knights, noblemen, and horsemen of that system collectively. Recorded from Middle English, the word comes, via Old French ...
Courtesy Books

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Literature, Children's literature studies
Length:
590 words

Courtesy books belong to that category of didactic literature whose aim is to teach young people socially accepted standards for

courtesy books

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

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Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
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183 words

Didactic works prescribing forms of outward behaviour, for example table manners, in secular society. They are distinguished from the didactic

courtliness and courtesy

courtliness and courtesy  

[OFr. cort, curtesie, courtoisie] Terms describing the refined customs and behaviours that emerged in the European courts of the 11th and 12th centuries.Courtliness has its origins in the cult ...
courtly love

courtly love  

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Literature
A highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman, first developed by the troubadours of Southern France and extensively employed in European literature ...
Goops

Goops  

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Characters in pictures and text created by Gelett Burgess for his journal, The Lark, as boneless, quasi-human figures divided by their creator into two types: sulphites, independent thinkers, and ...
Sesyle Joslin

Sesyle Joslin  

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(1929–), American author famous for two humorous books of manners illustrated by Maurice Sendak, What Do You Say, Dear? (1948), a Caldecott Honor winner, and What Do You Do, Dear? ...

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