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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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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