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The 31 pages that link to Chivalric romance, each with the reason it gives.

• Courtly loveNarrower topic: Romance provided a narrative setting for testing love through trials and service.

• Romance novelBroader topic: It shaped later ideals of love tested by adventure and social barriers.

• ChivalryRelated: Romances made chivalric ideals memorable while also dramatizing their failures.

• Don QuixoteNarrower topic: Quixote models his identity and expectations on the books of this genre.

• Miguel de CervantesRelated: Cervantes made this tradition the object of Don Quixote’s idealized imitation.

• Chrétien de TroyesNarrower topic: His works helped define the romance form in vernacular literature.

• Historical romanceBroader topic: It locates the genre's relationship plots in medieval social and political worlds.

• FantasyRelated: Its quests and marvelous adventures became durable sources for fantasy plots and settings.

• HeroRelated: Its knights embody a historically influential code of heroic behavior.

• KnightRelated: Romances carried knightly ideals beyond the realities of military service.

• Holy GrailNarrower topic: Its episodic adventures gave writers a form for varying the Grail story.

• Literary genreBroader topic: It shows how a genre’s name and conventions changed across historical periods.

• Byronic heroCompared with: Its duty-bound knight contrasts with the Byronic hero’s resistance to social codes.

• Matter of BritainNarrower topic: Arthurian stories became a major setting for this genre’s ideals and conflicts.

• QuestRelated: Romance made the quest a framework for testing knightly virtue and spiritual worth.

• The Faerie QueeneNarrower topic: Spenser adapts its quests and marvels to an ambitious moral epic.

• Arthurian romanceNarrower topic: Arthurian works form one of the most influential bodies within this broader genre.

• Ludovico AriostoNarrower topic: Ariosto’s poem belongs to this tradition while freely combining its episodes and tones.

• Romance (genre)Broader topic: It became the genre’s defining medieval form, joining adventure to ideals of knighthood.

• War literatureRelated: Its idealized warrior codes became a reference point for later critiques of military honor.

• Damsel in distressNarrower topic: Its plots often cast women as threatened figures whose rescue demonstrates a knight’s virtue.

• MabinogionCompared with: Some Mabinogion stories resemble romance, but their Welsh settings and narrative patterns resist easy classification.

• Torquato TassoRelated: Tasso adapts its enchantments and love plots while aiming for a more unified Christian epic.

• Antarah ibn ShaddadRelated: Antarah’s epic later combines martial exploits with an enduring love plot.

• Jean FroissartRelated: Froissart’s vivid battle narratives helped preserve the appeal of knightly ideals.

• Jerusalem DeliveredRelated: The poem blends crusading warfare with enchanted landscapes, love, and knightly adventure.

• Lancelot-Grail CycleNarrower topic: The cycle expands romance conventions into a long, interconnected prose narrative.

• Matteo Maria BoiardoNarrower topic: Boiardo reshapes its conventions within an epic poem.

• History of fantasyRelated: Its quests and marvelous settings established patterns inherited by fantasy.

• Honoré d'UrféRelated: L’Astrée blends pastoral conversation with the elevated love and adventure of romance.

• Tirant lo BlanchNarrower topic: The novel uses this tradition while giving its battles and social life unusual realism.