Maternity and Chivalry after Chrétien

Moral Chivalry

Moral perceptions of harm and fairness are instrumental in guiding how an individual navigates moral challenges. Classic research documents that the gender of a target can affect how people deploy these perceptions of harm and fairness. Across multiple studies, we explore the effect of an individual's moral orientations (their considerations of harm and justice) and a target's gender on altruis...

The “True” Romantic: Benevolent Sexism and Paternalistic Chivalry

Maternity

The Representation of Chivalry in The Knight's Tale

The purpose of this paper is to determine to what exíent the contemporaneous state of chivalry has influenced Chaucer's Knight in his literary endeavor. First I analyze the Knight's personality, which evinces his militant and nonconformist nature: as opposed to the majority of knights, Chaucer's Knight, in an attempt to uphold the ideal of chivalry, is engaged in religious campaigns, while he r...

Ritchey - Chrétien telescope for ground - based γ - ray astronomy

The field of very high energy (VHE) ground-based γray astronomy, pioneered by the Whipple 10m atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (ACT) [ 1], is being revolutionized by the new generation observatories: H.E.S.S. [ 2], MAGIC [ 3], and VERITAS [ 4]. Dozens of new γray sources, some representing new classes of VHE emitters, have been discovered during the last decade [ 5]. If the trend of scientific d...