The Chivalric Imagination in Elizabethan England
2011; Wiley; Volume: 8; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00798.x
ISSN1741-4113
Autores Tópico(s)Medieval Literature and History
ResumoLiterature CompassVolume 8, Issue 5 p. 266-279 The Chivalric Imagination in Elizabethan England Marco Nievergelt, Marco Nievergelt University of LausanneSearch for more papers by this author Marco Nievergelt, Marco Nievergelt University of LausanneSearch for more papers by this author First published: 02 May 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00798.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract The present article, drawing from a range of studies in different areas from the last 30 years, seeks to debunk the myth of the obsolescence and decadence of chivalry and knighthood in the Renaissance by avoiding a discussion of its supposedly anachronistic, inert or even escapist nature, and by emphasising instead the cultural relevance, malleability and persistence of chivalric motifs in Elizabethan imagination and society. The continued, even intensified use of chivalric traditions, rhetoric and motifs in the Elizabethan period suggests instead that these occupied a central position in that culture's imaginative universe, allowing them to become the vehicles for a wide variety of often overlapping discourses. These include such crucial issues as the nature of true nobility, the transformation of the aristocratic culture of honour, politically inflected courtship of the unmarried queen, representations of the post-Reformation religious struggle in Europe with its attendant apocalyptic overtones, geographic discovery and exploration, and instances of social and spiritual 'self-fashioning' in terms of a knightly quest – to name only the most important uses of chivalry sketched here. Chivalry in the Elizabethan period is thus best seen not as a stable set of values, but as providing a culturally authoritative but highly adaptable, fluid 'language', suitable for articulating a wide variety of meanings. Works Cited Primary Bale, John. Select Works of John Bale. Ed. Henry Christmas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1849. Google Scholar Bateman, Stephen. Travayled Pylgrime. London, 1569. Google Scholar Beaumont, Francis. The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Ed. Sheldon P. Zitner. 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