chivalric
61Hastilude — is a generic term used in the Middle Ages to refer to many kinds of martial games. The word comes from the Latin hastiludium , literally lance game . By the fourteenth century, the term usually excluded tournaments and was used to describe the… …
62Priory of Sion — The Prieuré de Sion , translated from French as Priory of Sion, is the name of multiple groups, both real and fictitious. One is a fringe fraternal organization, founded and dissolved in France in 1956 by Pierre Plantard. In the 1960s, Plantard… …
63John Fraser (critic) — John Fraser is a critic, literary theorist, and cultural analyst, who has been concerned in a variety of ways with relationships between energy and order. Biographical Details Fraser was born in Church End Finchley, North London, in 1928. In 1948 …
64tapestry — tapestrylike, adj. /tap euh stree/, n., pl. tapestries, v., tapestried, tapestrying. n. 1. a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture… …
65Cervantes, Miguel de — ▪ Spanish writer Introduction in full Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra born September 29?, 1547, Alcalá de Henares, Spain died April 22, 1616, Madrid Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) and the most… …
66Portuguese literature — Introduction the body of writing in the Portuguese language produced by the peoples of Portugal, which includes the Madeira Islands and the Azores. The literature of Portugal is distinguished by a wealth and variety of lyric poetry,… …
67Order of St Joachim — The Order of Saint Joachim is considered by some historians a Conf …
68Introduction — To compose an encyclopedia of “medieval literature” of the world is a daunting prospect, since it involves a significant period of time (more than 1,000 years) and a remarkable number of literary traditions (European, Middle Eastern, Persian,… …
69Caballero Cifar, El — (Caballero Zifar) (ca. 1299–1305) El Caballero Cifar is the earliest full length indigenous chivalric ROMANCE in Spanish, written in Castilian prose in about the year 1300.While its author is anonymous, he was clearly familiar with the LAIS of …
70Society for Creative Anachronism — SCA The largest of the medieval ‘re enactment’ societies, established in 1968 at the home of Diana Paxton. The Society has grown to more than 40,000 members worldwide, encompassing medieval society in Europe and the Middle East from roughly 600 A …
