chivalry
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 ...
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
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
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
(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? ...
