Just what is chivalry, how should it be defined? We might say that chivalry is dead: Many feminists objected to the implication of chivalry that women were weaker. Both feminist critique of chivalry ...

Richard Abels is the chairman of the history department at the United States Naval Academy. He is a historian of medieval warfare, and the author of "Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in ...

Has chivalry had its day? Or does it just look different in 2025 – a world of situationships and automatic doors?

Don’t get me wrong. As a woman, I don’t mind having doors opened for me, those chairs pulled, and the hand on my back ushering me in; despite the fact that last I checked, my being a woman did nothing ...

Chivalry, by definition of the New Oxford American Dictionary, means, “the medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code.” It was a term that came to prominence in the Medieval ...

Scott Farrell is the director of the Chivalry Today Educational Program, a historical fencing instructor and a contributing author to the book "Martial Arts and Philosophy." July 30, 2013 The ...

While there’s nothing inherently wrong with a man holding open the door for a woman passing through or paying the check at a restaurant, society’s focus on chivalry places emphasis on the wrong ...

Medieval manuals of chivalry suggest that a moral element is one part of the ideal of chivalry. With the incipient interest in the Middle Ages in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, some ...