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Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Chivalry

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novel Ivanhoe is certainly a basic place to start if one wants to know more about the ideas and actions of chivalry. BBchvlry.doc CHIVALRY IN IVANHOE  Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., February 2001 Introduction Whenever we think of the word "chivalry," it  is either in the context of "being dead"-not a pretty thought, or we think of knights and damsels in distress, waiting to be rescued by said knight. In its  most positive sense, the word conjures other times of gentility and good manners. Walter Scotts 1719 novel Ivanhoe is certainly a basic place to start if one wants to  know more about the ideas and actions of chivalry. According to Webster Chivalry according to Mr. Webster, is a body of knights, the practices of knighthood, or the spirit or  character of the ideal knight. Chivalrous is marked by honor, courtesy, and generosity; and also marked by especial courtesy to women. According to Scott Of course our  hero, Ivanhoe is model of all that is chivalrous, but each of the major characters in the novel have something to add about the nature of chivalry. Richard the First,  in his disguise as the Black Knight, praises Locksley/Robin Hood, as he says that a man who "does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only  for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears" (376). Ivanhoe, has been wounded and laments that he can only hear the sounds of battle,  ``Rebecca, he replied, ``thou knowest not how impossible it is for one trained to actions of chivalry to remain passive as a priest, or a woman, when they are acting