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Excerpt from Romances of Chivalry on Greek Soil: Being the Romanes Lecture for 1911; Delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, 25 May 1911
Franks both the idea of a knight and the fantastic ideal of chivalrous adventure?
I think not. The kavallarz'oz' of these romances have a different lineage. In prowess and manliness they rival the knights of the West but they constitute no order; there is no institution of knighthood, none of the distinctive customs of Latin chivalry like the new knight's vigil over his arms. The Latin institution was not the model which produced the Greek ideal. For the Greeks already had their own. While Latin chivalry was developing into a social fact, under feudal conditions, there was an analogous but perfectly inde pendent development of a chivalrous ideal in the Greek speaking world, and to show this I must ask you to accompany me into a different field of literature.
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