explain the code of chivalary as idealized in the romances in sir Gawain and the Green Knight& LeMorteD'Arthur
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Love God Almighty with all your heart and all your powers\nLove your neighbour as yourself\nGive alms to the poor as ye are able\nEntertain strangers\nVisit the sick\nBe merciful to prisoners\nDo ill to no man, nor consent unto such as do, for the receiver is as bad as the thief\nForgive as ye hope to be forgiven\nRedeem the captive\nHelp the oppressed\nDefend the cause of the widow and orphan\nRender righteous judgement\nDo not consent to any wrong\nPersevere not in wrath\nShun excess in eating and drinking\nBe humble and kind\nServe your liege lord faithfully\nDo not steal\nDo not perjure yourself, nor let others do so\nEnvy, hatred and violence separate men from the Kingdom of God\nDefend the Church and promote her cause.
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continue from here.\n\n\n [Inside the castle the coronation is held in Latin. Marke and \n               Isolde are crowned and take their seats on their thrones. Back \n               at the lookout point the flag bearers are stabbed by the Irish. \n               Dancing happens at the coronation celebrations]\n \n                                     MARKE\n                         Tristan! Seems I worried for nothing.\n \n                         \n                                     WICTRED\n                         May I dance with the Queen, or does \n                         Tristan have the next one?\n \n                                     MARKE\n                         That’s right, you have never danced \n                         with Isolde before!\n \n               [Tristan is pushed forward to dance with Isolde]\n\n                                     WICTRED\n                         A new song for Tristan. Slow.\n\n                                     ISOLDE\n                         Why did you burn it?\n\n                                     TRISTAN\n                         You know.\n\n                                     ISOLDE\n                         Meet me there in an hour or I’ll die.\n \n                         \n               [The dance ends]\n\n                                     MARKE\n                         I could still teach you a thing or two, \n                         dancing being one of them.\n \n                                     KAYE\n                         Accuse him now.\n\n                                     WICTRED\n                         No, no, no. We’ll have more than accusations.\n \n                         \n               [Tristan leaves]\n\n                                     MARKE\n                         Is something the matter?\n\n                                     ISOLDE\n                         I’m just feeling a little weary that’s \n                         all. I might just go and have a lie \n                         down.\n \n                                     MARKE\n                         Of course.\n\n               [Isolde leaves]\n\n                                     WICTRED\n                         Friends, friends hear me! We’ve forgotten \n                         the full moon isn’t it time to ride \n                         out?\n \n                                     GENERAL\n                         No. Tonight it cause for exception.\n \n                         \n                                     WICTRED\n                         But the coronation should uphold tradition, \n                         surely it is not to be neglected already?\n \n                         \n                                     MARKE\n                         We honour it. In half a night. Ride \n                         out! Where’s Tristan?\n \n               \n\n               [Everyone leaves to hunt while Tristan and Isolde race to be \n               with each other]\n \n                                     ISOLDE\n                         I miss Ireland\n\n                                     TRISTAN\n                         Isolde, this must end.\n\n                                     ISOLDE\n                         That’s like asking me to stop breathing.\n \n                         \n                                     TRISTAN\n                         It cannot be.\n\n               [Elsewhere Wictred leads the hunt to where Tristan and Isolde \n               are]\n \n                                     ISOLDE\n                         Please don’t leave me. Please!\n\n               [They kiss only to have the hunting party come upon them]\n\n                                     MARKE\n                         Isolde? There is someone...  No.\n\n                                     KING DONNCHADH\n                         I see how it is in Cornwall. My money \n                         is good enough, my
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My favorite story!\n\nArthur was the son of Igraine and Uther Pendragon.\nHe was tutored by Merlin the magician.\nWhen he got older, he pulled the sword Excallibur from a stone, indicating thaht he was to be the next king of England. \nAs king, he built a round table around which his knights sat. His capital was Camelot.\nUnfortunately, he had a half sister called Morgana le Fay. She tricked him into having a son with her, called Mordred.\nArthur married Gueneviere, but she fell in love with one of the knights of the round table, called Lancelot. Lancelot was also Arthur's best friend.\nEventually, Mordred grew up and challenged Arthur for the throne. Mordred revealed that Gueneviere had an affair with Lancelot. Now Arthur had to punish them, which he would rather not have done.\nThere is a battle, Mordred kills Arthur.\nThe end.
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s4.invisionfree.com/Knights_Rule_All/ar/t571.htm
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valentine:\n<[After saint Valentine] \nWord History: Lovers and the greeting card industry may have Geoffrey Chaucer to thank for the holiday that warms the coldest month. Although reference books abound with mentions of Roman festivals from which Valentine's Day may derive, Jack B. Oruch has shown that no evidence supports these connections and that Chaucer was probably the first to link the saint's day with the custom of choosing sweethearts. No such link has been found before the writings of Chaucer and several literary contemporaries who also mention it, but after them the association becomes widespread. It seems likely that Chaucer, the most imaginative of the group, invented it. The fullest and perhaps earliest description of the Valentine's Day tradition occurs in Chaucer's Parlement of Foules, composed around 1380, which takes place “on Seynt Valentynes day,/Whan every foul cometh there to chese [choose] his make [mate].”
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The book is about Jesus reportedly marrying Mary Magdalene and having a daughter, sarah.. and that the Holy Grail is not the cup that jesus drank from at the last supper, but the sacred feminine=mary magdalene..also contains references to symbolism trying 2 prove Jesus married and had a child.\nAs per the book an organisation called the Priory of Sion was founded by the Templars to protect the holy secret of the church. The Curator of the Louvre..who happens to be the Grand Master of the Priory is found dead within the museum the night he is to meet an american symbolism prof..Mr.Langdon. Langdon meets his granddaughter ..who has had a falling-out wiht her granddad after witnessing a sacred act.\nIt shows how they discover the secret of the Priory and of sophie(granddaughter's family).
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Try these websites for more info:\nhttp://www.britannia.com/history/h12.html\nhttp://www.legends.dm.net/kingarthur/\nYes I read "The once and Future King" by T.H. White, many years ago and loved it.  Loosely based on an idea from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (as many other subsequent books were).\n\nthere is a beautiful painting by Edward Burne-Jones called "The Last sleep of Arthur" - see website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_last_sleep_of_Arthur.jpg
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Actions speak louder than words.\n\nEver seen A Knight's Tale?  He loses for her, rather than winning, like every other guy promises.  Some sort of sacrifice would show you're serious.
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a chalice  used by Christ at the last supper.\nhave you read any of the King Arthur stories?
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I'm sorry that you're having so much trouble. I'm having trouble helping you interpret the question being that I haven't read that particular novel. I wish you the best of luck, but I can tell you that several people in your class are probably having the same trouble. So, any interpretation of the question that you would have would certainly be better than nothing!! ;)
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The poem describes the encounter between an unnamed knight and a mysterious fairy. It opens with a description of the knight in a barren landscape, "haggard" and "woe-begone". He tells the reader how he met a beautiful lady whose "eyes were wild"; he set her on his horse and they went together to her "elfin grot", where they began to make love. Falling asleep, the knight had a vision of "pale kings and princes", who warn him that "La Belle Dame sans Merci hath thee in thrall!". He awoke to find himself on the same "cold hill's side" where he is now "palely loitering".\n\nAlthough La Belle Dame Sans Merci is short (only twelve stanzas of four lines each, with an ABCB rhyme scheme), it is full of enigmas. Because the knight is associated with images of death - a lily, paleness, "fading", "wither[ing]" - he may well be dead himself at the time of the story. He is clearly doomed to remain on the hillside, but the cause of this fate is unknown. A straightforward reading suggests that the Belle Dame entraps him, along the lines of tales like Thomas the Rhymer or Tam Lin. More recent feminist commentators have suggested that the knight in fact raped the Belle Dame, and is being justly punished - this is based on textual hints like "she wept, and sigh'd full sore". Ultimately, the decision comes down to whether Keats wrote the poem as a simple story, or as a story with a moral: given his other work, this may be more an evocation of feeling than an intellectual attempt at moralising.
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This book is indeed permeated with symbols.If you want ,W Golding uses Robinson Crusoe's Myth but in a reversed variant:to be more specific if Daniel Defoe wants to show the way from primitivism to civilisation,W Golding points to the fact that human beings can easily turn back fom civilisation to primitivism.If you read the book you can see the boys spliting into 2 groups :the one led by Ralph and the other led by Jack.While one group enjoy order and discipline and always want to keep the fire burning so as to be finally rescued,the other group want to rule by fear and terror ,they like to go hunting and paint their faces!Let's take things in turn:The fire is a symbol of hope(because this is the only way they can be seen from the island)When the other boys steal the fire is because they have been transformed by the forces of the evil inside themselves,they have been guided by the primitive instincts inside them.Then we have the conch or that shell that Simon is going to carry whenever there's a meeting on the beach.It's a symbol of order and respect for the one who's talking(they could talk only if they touched the conch showing they have an opinion referring to that problem in discussion)Then Simon is wearing glasses which a symbol ,too,It stands for wisdom and intellingence and for civilised world with rules and obligations.Simon agrees that the fire should burn all the time on the island but he's bullied by the rough boys who are rebelling against order.While doing this they have steps behind to primitivism.So they go hunting wild pigs and invent stories about a creature on the island just to scare the others.The fact that they paint their faces like the savages  shows that they run away from who they are,they want to hide their true identity so they can be free to do what they want :fight,hunt,steal and even kill!\nThe pig's head put in a stick in the middle of the forest is in fact the lord of the flies,i.e the lord of terror,of evil forces lying in human beings.It';s symbolical for the bad boys on the island and it's opposite the conch .\nW.Golding knows very well the psychology of kids.He uses a very simple topic but he finally manages to reach complex things in this book which is part of metafiction literature.\nHope you understood something and if you didn't read the book ,please find some time and do it ...it's magnificent!
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the moral of the story/the overall message it's related to.\neg:war,betrayal,loneliness\nhope that helped.cheerz!
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Interesting reading here about 'The Development of the Codpiece'.\n\n Legend has it that Edward III, king of England from 1327-1377, had the codpiece of his armor ENLARGED to astounding proportions because he had heard that strength and military prowess were correlated with a man's endowment. As he was in the midst of the Hundred Years' War with the French at the time, it would not be surprising that he would try to seek any possible advantage available to him.\n\n He then ordered that the nobility and knights do the same to their armor. The legend goes on to say that the gullible French (from the nobility all the way down to the peasantry) were scared to death by the advance of the "WELL-EQUIPPED" men. If this legend is true, and the personality of Edward III would support it, it is an example of how the nobility can influence fashion. \nP.S. for the nicest codpiece go here: \n http://www.perrybrass.com/storypag.htm
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you could argue about the social as well as military value of the swoard in medieval times. they were a judge of one's character... see the link below
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They focused on the idea of chivalry in a time when lords and knights had little morals to guide them.  The Arthurian legends helped introduce the idea of chivalry to the upper classes of Europe in the Middle Ages.
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The Wife's story is set in the time of King Arthur, when fairies abounded in England; she ironically praises holy men, such as the friar, for driving them out. The "hero" of the story is a young knight, condemned to death for rape, but reprieved, at the insistence of Arthur's queen. His life will be spared if he can find out, within a year, what thing women most desire. The knight is troubled, but has no choice. \n\nChaucer, through the Miller (whom he ironically disapproves in his narrator's voice) challenges the conventions of rhetoric, subject and values, which he has first carefully exhibited in The Knight's Tale.