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Author : Mark Girouard
Release : 1985-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 738/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Return to Camelot by : Mark Girouard
Download or read book The Return to Camelot written by Mark Girouard. This book was released on 1985-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Girouard
Release : 1981
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 396/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chivalry and the English Gentleman by : Mark Girouard
Download or read book Chivalry and the English Gentleman written by Mark Girouard. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geïllustreerde studie over de herleving van de codes van het middeleeuwse ridderschap van het einde van de 18e eeuw tot de eerste wereldoorlog.
Author : Maurice Keen
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Origins of the English Gentleman by : Maurice Keen
Download or read book Origins of the English Gentleman written by Maurice Keen. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Maurice Keen explores why a host of men were accepted as entitled to coat armour because they were 'gentlemen', not because they were knights or of knightly ancestry.
Author : Praseeda Gopinath
Release : 2013
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 811/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Scarecrows of Chivalry by : Praseeda Gopinath
Download or read book Scarecrows of Chivalry written by Praseeda Gopinath. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the fate of the ideal of the English gentleman once the empire he was meant to embody declined, Praseeda Gopinath argues that the stylization of English masculinity became the central theme, focus, and conceit for many literary texts that represented the "condition of Britain" in the 1930s and the immediate postwar era. From the early writings of George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh to works by poets and novelists such as Philip Larkin, Ian Fleming, Barbara Pym, and A. S. Byatt, the author shows how Englishmen trafficking in the images of self-restraint, governance, decency, and detachment in the absence of a structuring imperial ethos became what the poet Larkin called "scarecrows of chivalry." Gopinath's study of this masculine ideal under duress reveals the ways in which issues of race, class, and sexuality constructed a gendered narrative of the nation.
Author : Brad Miner
Release : 2021-05-11
Genre : Reference
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Book Rating : 158/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Compleat Gentleman by : Brad Miner
Download or read book The Compleat Gentleman written by Brad Miner. This book was released on 2021-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Here is a welcome reminder that men can be gentlemen without turning into ladies—or louts.”—Michelle Malkin "Miner writes with wit and charm."—Wall Street Journal The Gentleman: An Endangered Species? The catalog of masculine sins grows by the day—mansplaining, manspreading, toxic masculinity—reflecting our confusion over what it means to be a man. Is a man’s only choice between the brutish, rutting #MeToo lout and the gelded imitation woman, endlessly sensitive and fun to go shopping with? No. Brad Miner invites you to discover the oldest and best model of manhood— the gentleman. In this tour de force of popular history and gentlemanly persuasion, Miner lays out the thousand-year history of this forgotten ideal and makes a compelling case for its modern revival. Three masculine archetypes emerge here—the warrior, the lover, and the monk—forming the character of “the compleat gentleman.” He cultivates a martial spirit in defense of the true and the beautiful. He treats the opposite sex with passionate respect. And he values learning in pursuit of the truth. Miner’s gentleman stands out for the combination of discretion, decorum, and nonchalance that the Renaissance called sprezzatura. He belongs to an aristocracy of virtue, not of wealth or birth, following a lofty code of manly conduct, which, far from threatening democracy, is necessary for its survival.
