chivalric romance

C4255
concept

A chivalric romance is a medieval narrative genre that recounts the adventures of knights engaged in quests that blend courtly love, martial valor, and the supernatural within an idealized feudal world.

All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
chivalric romance canonical 11
medieval literary cycle 3
courtly romance 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: chivalric romance
Generated description
A chivalric romance is a medieval narrative genre that recounts the adventures of knights engaged in quests that blend courtly love, martial valor, and the supernatural within an idealized feudal world.

Instances (23)

Instance Via concept surface
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight —
Argonautic expedition heroic quest
Weisskunig —
Theuerdank chivalric epic poem
Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian romances chivalric romance cycle
The Awntyrs off Arthure —
The Knight's Tale —
The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain —
Tristan courtly romance
Saint George and the Dragon chivalric romance motif
Seven Labors of Esfandiyar heroic quest
Freydal —
Orlando Furioso —
Arthurian legend medieval literary cycle
Kings’ Cycle medieval literary cycle
Estoire del Saint Graal Grail romance
Erec et Enide —
Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion —
Matter of France medieval literary cycle
The Tale of Genji courtly romance
The Tale of Sir Gareth —
Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae historical romance
The Squire's Tale —