«Quin mal és lo besar». (Literatura i moral al voltant de la quarta línia de l'amor) by Xavier Renedo Puig

“…The discussion about the kiss in chapter 176 of the<em> Tirant lo Blanc</em> –a me­dieval chivalric romance written by Joanot Martorell between 1460 and 1468– is approached through the contrast between Eiximenis' moral rules and the profan rules. …”
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La poética deseada por Cervantes o el arte de la voz en el Quijote by Gustavo Illades Aguiar

“…In the epilogue of Don Quixote, for the first time Cervantes discovers his desire for a new poetics, his own, to conclude the poetics of the chivalric romance novels. For this, he creates a set of resources that undermines a topical equation of his time (writing equals truth), which propitiated the conversion of the gullible reader into a critical reader and the advent of the modern novel. …”
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François de La Noue czyta Amadisa z Walii by Witold Konstanty Pietrzak

“…Amadis de Gaule is a chivalric romance adapted from the Spanish work of Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo by Nicolas Herberay des Essarts in 1540-1548. …”
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Androgyny in Moderata Fonte’s Tredici canti del Floridoro by Merve Aydoğdu Çelik

“…Moderata Fonte, who is one of the earliest female authors to write chivalric romance in Italy, participates in the debate on women [querelle des femmes] with Il merito delle donne (1600). …”
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Reading by proxy: A visit to the literary archive by Karin Kukkonen

“…Even though few readers today will be familiar with the chivalric romance, the French fairy tale and the picaresque, all genres on which Wieland draws, they can easily follow the structure of references in the novel through reading by proxy. …”
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Genre Originality of Novel by M. Vargas Llosa “Green House” by O. K. Voicou, A. P. Zhukov, B. V. Kovalev

“…The question of the presence in the novel “Green House” of signs of a chivalric romance is considered. The results of a comparative analysis of the “Green House” and the Catalan novel “Tyrant White” are presented. …”
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Language of Love in Marcelijus Martinaitis „Atmintys“ by Kristina Bačiulienė

“…The primary code of the album of love is the concept of memory and the notion of love as seen by Oskaras Milašius, while the secondary code relates to Dante, chivalric romance of Provence troubadours, legends of King Arthur, Celtic mythology.  …”
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La comparaison dans Philandre (1544) Procédures figuratives en contexte narratif by Mounier, Pascale

“…It plays several roles in the elaboration of the narrative sequences of Philandre, a chivalric romance composed by Jean des Gouttes and published in 1544. …”
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LANGUAGE OF LOVE IN MARCELIJUS MARTINAITIS "ATMINTYS" by Kristina Bačiulienė

“…The primary code of the album of love is the concept of memory and the notion of love as seen by Oskaras Milašius, while the secondary code relates to Dante, chivalric romance of Provence troubadours, legends of King Arthur, Celtic mythology. …”
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‘Cantare alla greca con citere e violini’: Western Musical Transfers and Localisations in Early Modern Crete by Alexandros Maria Hatzikiriakos

“…A last example is represented by the chivalric romance Erotokritos, containing references to Western musical symbolism, such as the myth of Orpheus as a good rhetor and sovereign, and the lute representing civic harmony. …”
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Mimesis in Don Quixote by Giselle von der Walde

“…Este escrito se propone mirar, a partir del diálogo con el canónigo de Toledo (I, 49-50), cómo en sus conductas miméticas desde el comienzo de la obra, don Quijote entiende la imitación como emulación; en consecuencia se intenta demostrar que el efecto de la literatura en el caballero manchego parece ser el tipo de mimesis que Platón acepta en el libro III de la República.Abstract:Don Quijote demonstrates with the example of his own life the error made by the Canon of Toledo when the latter uses the arguments of the neo-Aristotelian poets to condemn the novels of chivalric romance. Quijote tries to show that reading the chivalric romances leads to neither madness nor the abandonment of the self, but, on the contrary, brings out the best in a person’s nature, and makes one a better person. …”
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Medievalism in contemporary opera by Haggett, GK

“…Each case study is approached as an adaptation of a different medieval literary genre: affective piety, the fabliau, the troubadour lyric, and the chivalric romance. This organizational method provides a point of access into the cultural, critical, and creative reception histories through which texts from the twelfth-to-fourteenth centuries are received by composers, librettists, performers, readers, and audiences today.…”

«Crítica literaria y configuración genérica de las ‘Historias caballerescas breves’» by Karla Xiomara Luna Mariscal

“…Theoretic. Genres. Chivalric romances. …”
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"How Do You Know If It Is Love or Lust?" On Gender, Status, and Violence in Old Norse Literature by Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir

“…This article examines attitudes towards behaviour relating to women within Old Norse literature, focusing both on chivalric romances (translated and original, the riddarasögur) and the legendary sagas (fornaldarsögur), texts that were mostly written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. …”
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Cervantes y su intertextualidad espanola by Alberto Blecua

“…I omit – except for brief introductions – structural models such as chivalric romances, pastoral and picaresque novels, and Italian novellas. …”
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An anthropological note on the Grail by Alberto Castaldini

“…In this perspective, the metamorphic nature of the Grail seems to acquire an anthropological relevance which goes far beyond the narrative of chivalric romances, charging for a possible anthropopoietic function. …”
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Chivalric Poetry between Singing and Printing in Early Modern Italy by Luca Degl'Innocenti

“…Between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, chivalric romances were much loved in Italy, both in popular and in learned contexts, and were one of the bestselling genres in the nascent printed book trade. …”
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La lecture hagiographique comme pratique religieuse féminine (Espagne, xvie-xviie siècles) by Isabelle Poutrin

“…These were part and parcel of an approach to education that preferred devotional works and eschewed profane readings, chivalric romances and comedies. Under the influence of hagiographic narratives, young girls learned to imitate such examples, always however within the current canons of propriety and obedience demanded of females. …”
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Travelling with Quichotte: Reading Rushdie’s Quixotic Reinvention of Cervantes’ Don by Abin Chakraborty

“…Salman Rushdies latest novel Quichotte , inspired by Cervantes Don Quixote , revolves around the journey of a fictional character named Ismail Smile who adopts the name Quichotte as he embarks on a fantastic quest across America to win the heart of celebrated actor and talk-show host Salma R, since his perception of reality has been muddled by incessant immersion in television shows, just as the mind of Cervantes don had been addled by his preoccupation with chivalric romances. While Cervantes protagonist, through his various misadventures, ironically exposed the many maladies of contemporary society, Quichottes journey across America, accompanied by his son Sancho, whom he miraculously imagines into existence, also operates as a picaresque narrative that methodically dissects the alarming aberrations of contemporary world order. …”
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Imaginary World of Post-Byzantine Chronicle-Writing (The Case of the Ekthesis Chronica from the First Half of the Sixteenth Century) by Lev Vsevolodovich Lukhovitskiy

“…The imaginary world of the chapters dealing with the events prior to 1453 reminds the reader of the heroic world of chivalric romances. The chapters describing the fall of Constantinople are may be read as a prosaic lamentation of the loss of the city which embodied the Byzantine civilization as a whole. …”
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