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Article: Alex Davis, Chilvary, and Romance in the English Renaissance.(Book Review)

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Alex Davis, Chilvary, and Romance in the English Renaissance, Studies in Renaissance Literature 11 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), viii + 263 pp. ISBN 0-85991-777-0. 50.00 [pounds sterling].

Alex Davis's new book offers a detailed reassessment of the function and efficacy of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Responding to the 'received wisdom' expressed in Renaissance humanist texts (and, it is argued, echoed in some modern criticism) that romance was an outmoded, obsolete form engendering idleness and immorality, Davis sets out to demonstrate the diversity, flexibility, and resilience of chivalric forms. The introduction offers a ...

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