# Chivalry — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Chivalry by James Branch Cabell.

- [Dedication](https://www.betterreads.dev/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.dev/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.dev/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.dev/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.dev/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

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- [The Story of the Tenson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/ii-the-story-of-the-tenson.md)
- [III: The Story of the Rattrap](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/iii-the-story-of-the-rattrap.md)
- [IV: The Story of the Choices](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/iv-the-story-of-the-choices.md)
- [V: The Story of the Housewife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/v-the-story-of-the-housewife.md)
- [VI: The Story of the Satraps](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/vi-the-story-of-the-satraps.md)
- [VII: The Story of the Heritage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/vii-the-story-of-the-heritage.md)
- [VIII: The Story of the Scabbard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/viii-the-story-of-the-scabbard.md)
- [IX: The Story of the Navarrese](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/ix-the-story-of-the-navarrese.md)
- [X: The Story of the Fox-Brush](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/x-the-story-of-the-fox-brush.md)
- [The Epilogue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/the-epilogue.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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