Is chivalry dead?

Is chivalry dead?

Neil and Alice discuss knights in shining armour and teach some related vocabulary.

A man opening his date's car door for her to get out is an example of chivalry.

A man who opens the door for a woman and provides any help she needs is an example of a man who is chivalrous.

A child who always carefully listens to his mother's directions is an example of someone who is attentive.

The waitress was courteous, so we gave her a generous tip.

The definition of chivalrous is a man who is attentive and courteous to women, like a knight in shining armor.

Who wrote the novel Don Quixote, about a 50-year old man travelling Spain in search of knightly adventures in rusty armour and a cardboard helmet?

chivalry = polite behaviour usually by men towards women

the sum of the ideal qualifications of a knight, including courtesy, generosity

alive and kicking = very active

A law that is passed: enactments covering food safety

re-enactment = where you perform the actions of a past event

The repetition of an earlier (usually historic) event, as a performance or social event. They're going to the Civil War battle reenactment this weekend.

jousting = two people fight on horseback using a long pole or a lance to try to knock the other person off their horse

fetching = attractive

in distress = in need of help

prowess great skill or ability

courtly love an aristocratic code concerning the faithful love of a knight for his lady

intertwined = hard to separate

Intertwined is defined as twisted together, or closely connected in a way that cannot easily be separated.

You might make a very fetching – or attractive – knight, Neil. But you should get used to actually helping the ladies

But at some point in the history of chivalry – prowess – or skill – on the battlefield became combined with a set of conventions – or rules – governing other aspects of behaviour.

This included a knight's moral and religious duties and how to conduct their love affairs.

What has being a great footballer or a great warrior got to do with love?

He became a warrior at the late age of 29.

On został wojownikiem późno, w wieku 29 lat.

It's a comic novel which describes what happens to an elderly knight who, his head muddled by reading too many romances, sets out on his old horse with his companion Sancho Panza, to seek adventure.

I hate all this muddle - I'll have to tidy it up. I don't know who is responsible for all that muddle