Chivalric romances, books which recounted the deeds of heroic knights such as King Arthur and Amadís de Gaula, were a popular genre of fiction in the 16th century [[Europe]]. They were satirized (and immortalized) in [[Don Quixote]], where an aging aristocrat attempts to apply anachronistic chivalric values to his own time, with disastrous results. | Chivalric romances, books which recounted the deeds of heroic knights such as King Arthur and Amadís de Gaula, were a popular genre of fiction in the 16th century [[Europe]]. They were satirized (and immortalized) in [[Don Quixote]], where an aging aristocrat attempts to apply anachronistic chivalric values to his own time, with disastrous results. |