Modern Chivalry

Author : Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603842136
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Chivalry written by Hugh Henry Brackenridge and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was only after serving as a chaplain in the American Revolution, playing an important role in the Whiskey Rebellion, and serving (often controversially) on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, that Hugh Henry Brackenridge composed his great comic epic. Published in installments over the twenty-eight–year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison, this irreverent and ribald novel, relating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O'Regan, leaves no major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issue of the period unscathed.

Author : Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742534032
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Chivalry written by Hugh Henry Brackenridge and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Don Quixote, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and Fielding's Tom Jones, Modern Chivalry is a tale of adventuring, episodic and exciting. Despite the author's European inspirations, it is a distinctively American book, not just because of its homespun, native characters and slapstick humor, but also because it is a narrative of journeying and questing. As it follows Captain Farrago and his sidekick on their travels, the book's premise becomes clear--that democracy as practiced in America is valuable and worthy, but that it is subject to malfunctions when tinkered with by unfit men. A pointed caricature of American life, Modern Chivalry will be of great value to all interested in American history and literature.

Author : Brad Miner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684512158
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Compleat Gentleman written by Brad Miner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Here is a welcome reminder that men can be gentlemen without turning into ladies—or louts.”—Michelle Malkin "Miner writes with wit and charm."—Wall Street Journal The Gentleman: An Endangered Species? The catalog of masculine sins grows by the day—mansplaining, manspreading, toxic masculinity—reflecting our confusion over what it means to be a man. Is a man’s only choice between the brutish, rutting #MeToo lout and the gelded imitation woman, endlessly sensitive and fun to go shopping with? No. Brad Miner invites you to discover the oldest and best model of manhood— the gentleman. In this tour de force of popular history and gentlemanly persuasion, Miner lays out the thousand-year history of this forgotten ideal and makes a compelling case for its modern revival. Three masculine archetypes emerge here—the warrior, the lover, and the monk—forming the character of “the compleat gentleman.” He cultivates a martial spirit in defense of the true and the beautiful. He treats the opposite sex with passionate respect. And he values learning in pursuit of the truth. Miner’s gentleman stands out for the combination of discretion, decorum, and nonchalance that the Renaissance called sprezzatura. He belongs to an aristocracy of virtue, not of wealth or birth, following a lofty code of manly conduct, which, far from threatening democracy, is necessary for its survival.

Author : Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Chivalry written by Hugh Henry Brackenridge and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffroi de Charny
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208684
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry written by Geoffroi de Charny and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess." On the lady who sees her knight honored: "All of this makes the noble lady rejoice greatly within herself at the fact that she has set her mind and heart on loving and helping to make such a good knight or good man-at-arms." On the worthiest amusements: "The best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can come." Enter the real world of knights and their code of ethics and behavior. Read how an aspiring knight of the fourteenth century would conduct himself and learn what he would have needed to know when traveling, fighting, appearing in court, and engaging fellow knights. Composed at the height of the Hundred Years War by Geoffroi de Charny, one of the most respected knights of his age, A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry was designed as a guide for members of the Company of the Star, an order created by Jean II of France in 1352 to rival the English Order of the Garter. This is the most authentic and complete manual on the day-to-day life of the knight that has survived the centuries, and this edition contains a specially commissioned introduction from historian Richard W. Kaeuper that gives the history of both the book and its author, who, among his other achievements, was the original owner of the Shroud of Turin.

Author : Catherine Grace F. Gore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern chivalry; or A new Orlando furioso [signed C.F.G.]. written by Catherine Grace F. Gore and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Chivalry; Or, The Adventures of Captain Farrago and Teague O'Regan written by Hugh Henry Brackenridge and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.BE/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of a Captain, and Teague O'Regan, His Servant written by Hugh Henry Brackenridge and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. F. G.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Chivalry, Or, a New Orlando Furioso. [The Address “to Young England, Esq.,” Subscribed, Speciosissimus; the Preface Signed, C. F. G., Being the Initials of the Authoress, Mrs. Catherine Frances Gore. Edited by W. H. Ainsworth.] With Illustrations by G. Cruikshank written by C. F. G. and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Chivalry written by Hugh Henry Brackenridge and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: