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Belianís De Grecia
Belianís of Greece is the eponymous hero of a Spanish chivalric romance novel, ''The honour of chivalry'',Fernández, J. (1703)The honour of chivalry: or, The famous and delectable history of Don Bellianis of Greece Containing the valiant exploits of that magnanimous and heroick prince: son unto the emperor Don Bellaneo of Greece ... Tr. out of Italian ... London: Printed for E. Tracy. following in the footsteps of the influential Amadis de Gaula. An English abridgement of this novel was published in 1673. It is best known today because it was one of the books spared during the expurgation of Don Quixote's library in Chapter 6 of Part I of ''Don Quixote''. This book was known by the English man of letters Samuel Johnson; see Eithne Henson, ''“The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry”: Samuel Johnson and Romance'', London and Toronto 1992, and John Hardy, "Johnson and Don Bellianis ic" ''Review of English Studies'', new series, vol. 17 (1966), pp. 297–299. It is also mentione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honour Of Chivalry C1715
Honour (British English) or honor (American English; see spelling differences) is the idea of a bond between an individual and a society as a quality of a person that is both of social teaching and of personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valour, chivalry, honesty, and compassion. It is an abstract concept entailing a perceived quality of worthiness and respectability that affects both the social standing and the self-evaluation of an individual or institutions such as a family, school, regiment or nation. Accordingly, individuals (or institutions) are assigned worth and stature based on the harmony of their actions with a specific code of honour, and the moral code of the society at large. Samuel Johnson, in his ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' (1755), defined honour as having several senses, the first of which was "nobility of soul, magnanimity, and a scorn of meanness". This sort of honour derives from the percei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
