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White Knights and Reviling Wives from David Edgington

and the Boniface option from Andrew Isker

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And now on with the show.

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Music As C.S. Lewis wrote in his essay, The Necessity of Chivalry,

the old model of masculinity espoused in medieval knighthood was a bedrock principle of Western civilization

because it held together two seemingly contradictory categories.

The man as a savage and the man as a gentleman.

One embodiment of this ideal would be William Wallace, the warrior poet. He could think

and he could kill. He could give life and take it. And just as importantly, he could discern the

proper time for each. He could read poetry, speak fluently in Latin, discuss Dante, and yet walk

among commoners with a familiar and friendly touch. He could establish godly laws, enact justice, and hold a newborn in his arms.

Lewis's concern after two brutal world wars was that the West had lost this proper masculine

balance. In turn, some men became ferocious monsters, utterly lacking any semblance of humanity, and thus tyrants or merciless soldiers.

For example, Western leaders unflinchingly gassed and butchered their brothers in the trenches, totally without remorse.

Other men became tame men, absent of courage altogether, either soulless bureaucrats or spineless intellectuals,

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