It explains that the maintenance of the “spirit of gentleman” was necessary to defend a political order in 1688 against what Burke saw as the rationalist levelling tendencies of 1789, emphasizing masculinity as central to the age of chivalry. It states that a newly triumphant Whig political culture thus made the moral and aesthetic tastes of aristocratic gentlemen central to sustaining aristocratic hegemony in the age of chivalry. It further notes that Edmund Burke trumpeted the masculinist aristocratic political culture that triumphed in 1688 and reigned until the extension of suffrage to middle-class men in 1832.

NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2000 King Arthur and His Knights. Chivalry was, in addition, a religious, moral and social code which helped distinguish the higher classes from those below them and which provided a means by which knights could earn themselves a favourable reputation so that.

It notes that in Burke's Whig ideology, the “manly sentiment” nursed by the delight and splendor of the queen “kept alive” aristocratic hegemony in eighteenth-century political culture. The Age of Fable: The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch CONTENTS: Bibliographic Record: NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED VOLUME III NEW YORK: REVIEW OF REVIEWS, 1913. Wrestling and hunting helped them gain strength and practice the skills they would need on the battlefield. In medieval Europe, a code of ethics known as chivalry developed which included rules and expectations that the nobility would, at all times, behave in a certain manner. This chapter outlines the ways in which eighteenth-century aristocrats appropriated oppositional ideologies in order to legitimate their own position atop the social, political, and economic hierarchy.

The age of chivalry