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Views & Essays Archive
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Be Happy – Choose Generosity
Posted on December 24, 2003 | No CommentsWhatever you put out in this world comes back to you tenfold. It may not come back in the same form you sent it, but the universe will surely reciprocate, in some shape or form, in this lifetime or the next. -
Joseph Campbell on Chivalry: Part 1
Posted on December 21, 2003 | No CommentsIn a world where marriage was primarily a means of establishing geographic or economic bonds between two clans, chivalry helped to tear down the centuries-old social customs that made wives little more than property and husbands political pawns. -
Joseph Campbell on Chivalry: Part 2
Posted on December 20, 2003 | No CommentsSo, if the Code of Chivalry was such a radical departure from the traditional gender roles of the Middle Ages, why does the mention of “chivalry” cause men and women who believe in “gender equality” to grind their teeth? Why are the genteel attitudes of chivalry seen by so many people as demeaning towards women? -
Women’s Roles Part 1: History’s Women of Chivalry
Posted on November 27, 2003 | No CommentsTo see the real place of female characters in Arthurian literature we must look beyond the gender-biased affectations of the 19th century. Women in medieval literature played an active and integral part in the development of the Code of Chivalry. Certainly, Guinevere, Isoud, Elaine and the other ladies of Arthurian legend didn’t put on armor and ride into battle, but neither did they sit quietly on the sidelines. -
Women’s Roles Part 2: Chivalry & Today’s Heroic Lady Role Models
Posted on November 26, 2003 | No CommentsToday, movies, television and novels have replaced bards and jongleurs telling knightly tales by the fireside. Yet just like those chivalric stories of the Middle Ages, today’s entertainment media... -
My Heart on the Line
Posted on October 24, 2003 | No CommentsMy son has connected me to my country in a way that I was too selfish and insular to experience before. I feel closer to the waitress at our local diner than to some of my oldest friends. She has two sons in the Corps. They are facing the same dangers as my boy. When the guy who fixes my car asks me how John is doing, I know he means it. His younger brother is in the Navy. -
The Meaning of Chivalry
Posted on October 10, 2003 | No CommentsA poetic expression of integrity, strength and honor. Chivalry Is... A kind word to a stranger, A smile for those in need, Sincerity in every action, Both in word and deed. -
Knight Vision
Posted on June 5, 2003 | No Comments"For me," he says, "chivalry is embodied in someone who recognizes that courage and strength are different from aggression or personal achievement." -
C.S. Lewis: A Pioneer of Chivalry Today
Posted on November 24, 2002 | No CommentsLewis believed that without the knight, we have two types of people: those who are fierce in battle but cannot be gentle elsewhere, and those who are gentle in their real lives, but completely useless. The knight is the person who can be both fierce and gentle, but such behavior is learned. -
No Such Thing As "Chivalry Blues"
Posted on November 7, 2002 | 1 CommentBeing someone’s “knight in shining armor” can change your whole outlook Have you ever had one of those days? The kind of days where nothing goes right and the world...
