# Chivalry — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Chivalry by James Branch Cabell.

- [Dedication](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/dedication.md): The author dedicates the book to Anne Branch Cabell, expressing his devotion and obedience to her as his high and noble lady.
- [Precautional](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/precautional.md): The author introduces the volume as a retelling of tales from Messire Nicolas de Caen, a partisan Yorkist and Burgundian chronicler, and discusses the nature of Chivalry as a pragmatic hypothesis and a code of conduct ro
- [Chivalry](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/chivalry.md): This chapter, titled 'Chivalry,' presents a dizain des reines, a poetic sequence of ten stanzas each devoted to a queen, exploring themes of love, power, sacrifice, and the complex interplay between illusion and reality 
- [The Prologue](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/the-prologue.md): Messire Nicolas de Caen dedicates his book to Isabella of Portugal, Duchess Dowager of Burgundy, explaining his purpose to write of queens and their love affairs. He reflects on the unique burdens of royal women, who mus
- [The Story of the Sestina](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/i-the-story-of-the-sestina.md): Dame Alianora, Queen of England, seeks out the clerk Osmund Heleigh, a former troubadour who once loved her, to guide her through hostile territory to Bristol after the Barons' War. During their journey, old wounds and i
- [The Story of the Tenson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/ii-the-story-of-the-tenson.md): Prince Edward, traveling southward, encounters a page who reveals that his wife, Princess Ellinor, plans to flee to Castile with the help of de Gâtinais. The Prince, initially unaware of her discontent, resolves to retri
- [III: The Story of the Rattrap](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/iii-the-story-of-the-rattrap.md): King Edward, having been cheated of Guienne and the Lady Blanch by King Philippe, devises a trap to capture the French king. He arranges a secret meeting with Blanch in a forester's hut, but the trap is turned around: Ph
- [IV: The Story of the Choices](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/iv-the-story-of-the-choices.md): Queen Ysabeau, now ruling England after imprisoning King Edward, torments Sir Gregory Darrell and his beloved Rosamund Eastney. She reveals her own bitter history and tempts Rosamund with a vision of future despair, whil
- [V: The Story of the Housewife](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/v-the-story-of-the-housewife.md): In 1326, exiled Prince Edward of England and his mother Queen Ysabeau seek refuge at the court of Count William of Hainault. The Count's daughter Philippa boldly declares her love for Edward, leading to an alliance that 
- [VI: The Story of the Satraps](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/vi-the-story-of-the-satraps.md): Queen Anne of Bohemia, lonely and childless, befriends the priest Edward Maudelain, a bastard son of Lionel of Clarence who bears a striking resemblance to King Richard. Their bond deepens through shared charity and theo
- [VII: The Story of the Heritage](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/vii-the-story-of-the-heritage.md): The chapter recounts the tale of Edward Maudelain, who lived as the hermit Evrawc in Wales, tormented by demonic visions. A mysterious messenger from a Bohemian woman brings him a lock of hair and the message 'Time is!',
- [VIII: The Story of the Scabbard](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/viii-the-story-of-the-scabbard.md): King Richard, having escaped his usurpation by Henry of Lancaster, returns to Wales under the name Richard Holland. He meets Owain Glyndwyr, who has been plotting rebellion, but Richard declines to participate in the sch
- [IX: The Story of the Navarrese](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/ix-the-story-of-the-navarrese.md): This chapter recounts the tale of Jehane of Navarre, her forced marriage to Duke Jehan of Brittany, her enduring love for Antoine Riczi, and her eventual imprisonment by King Henry on charges of witchcraft. It also follo
- [X: The Story of the Fox-Brush](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/x-the-story-of-the-fox-brush.md): In 1417, Princess Katharine of Valois, left at a convent near Chartres, encounters a huntsman who claims to be a harper named Alain. They fall in love, but she later discovers he is actually King Henry V of England, her 
- [The Epilogue](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/the-epilogue.md): Messire Nicolas de Caen addresses his completed book, instructing it to present itself to the lady who commissioned it and to any reader. He defends the truth of his tales by citing his sources—Dame Jehane, Dame Katharin
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/endnotes.md): The endnotes provide scholarly references and commentary on the sources and historical details used in the chronicle, including Nicolas de Caen's work, Antoine Riczi's contributions, and the regency of a queen during the

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