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• Bushido
• Chivalry in literature
• Dueling
• Honor

• French Chivalry: Chivalric Ideas and Practices in Mediaeval France (originally published 1940; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sidney Painter (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Ritterzeit und Ritterwesen (2 volumes in German; Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1823), by Johann Gustav Büsching
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Aldo D. Scaglione (HTML at UC Press)
• Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry, by Thomas Bulfinch (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Chivalry (second edition; London: Colburn and Bentley, 1830), by G. P. R. James (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• The History of Chivalry (New York: Harper and Bros., n.d.), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
• La Chevalerie (third edition, in French; Paris: H. Welter, 1895), by Léon Gautier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Chevalerie (edition de luxe, in French; Paris: Féchoz et cie, 1896), by Léon Gautier (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry: Translated and Printed by William Caxton, From a French Version of Ramón Lull's "Le Libre del Orde de Cauayleria", Together With Adam Loutfut's Scottish Transcript (Harleian Ms. 6149) (EETS original series #168; London: Pub for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926), by Ramon Llull, ed. by A. T. P. Byles, trans. by William Caxton, contrib. by Adam Loutfut (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry, by Ramon Llull, trans. by William Caxton (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• The Flower of Battles, With Harness and Without, on Horse and on Foot (modern literal translation of 15th century Flos Duellatorum), by Fiore dei Liberi, trans. by Hermes Michelini (illustrated HTML at aemma.org)

• Brief Instructions Upon My Paradoxes of Defence, by George Silver (HTML at pbm.com)
• The Flower of Battles, With Harness and Without, on Horse and on Foot (modern literal translation of 15th century Flos Duellatorum), by Fiore dei Liberi, trans. by Hermes Michelini (illustrated HTML at aemma.org)
• Paradoxes of Defence, by George Silver (illustrated HTML at pbm.com)

• Modern Chivalry (Philadelphia: J. M'Culloch, 1792), by H. H. Brackenridge (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Tales of Superstition and Chivalry, by Anne Bannerman (HTML at cdlib.org)

• Stories From Famous Ballads, for Children (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860), by Grace Greenwood, illust. by Hammatt Billings (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The History of Valentine and Orson (Devonport, England: S. and J. Keys, ca. 1840) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Little Crusader Cousin of Long Ago; Being The Story of Hugo, Page to King Richard of England, in the Third Crusade (Boston: The Page Company, c1921), by Evaleen Stein, illust. by Charles E. Meister (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Stories from the Faerie Queene, by Mary Macleod, contrib. by Edmund Spenser and John W. Hales, illust. by Arthur G. Walker (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Honor of Dunmore (New York: Macmillan, 1929), by Hawthorne Daniel, illust. by Henry C. Pitz
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Queen Summer: or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose, by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Bushido, the Soul of Japan: An Exposition of Japanese Thought, by Inazo Nitobe (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain: From Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), by Stacey Elizabeth Triplette (HTML and PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by R. A. Shoaf (frame-dependent HTML at ufl.edu)

• The Code of Honor: or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling (Charleston, SC: Printed by T.J. Eccles, 1838), by John Lyde Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Code of Honor: or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling, by John Lyde Wilson (Gutenberg text)
• The Code of Honor: or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling (Charleston, SC: Printed by J. Phinney, 1858), by John Lyde Wilson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Down the River: or, Practical Lessons Under the Code Duello (New York: E. J. Hale and Son, 1874), by George W. Hooper
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, illust. by Seymour M. Stone, George Gibbs, W. J. Aylward, and J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), ed. by Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• Down the River: or, Practical Lessons Under the Code Duello (New York: E. J. Hale and Son, 1874), by George W. Hooper
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• Rival Caesars, a Romance of Ambition, Love and War: Being The Tale of a Vice-President, a Major-General and Three Brilliant and Beautiful Women (Chicago: Thurland and Thurland, 1903), by Desmond Dilg, illust. by Walter J. Enright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Politics of the Sword: Dueling, Honor, and Masculinity in Modern Italy (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press,), by Steven C. Hughes (PDF at Ohio State)

• Politics of the Sword: Dueling, Honor, and Masculinity in Modern Italy (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press,), by Steven C. Hughes (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Art of Fencing, or, The Use of the Small Sword (Dublin: James Hoey, 1734), by Labat, trans. by Andrew Mahon
  • PDF at MSU
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Sentiment of the Sword: A Country-House Dialogue, by Richard Francis Burton (HTML at ejmas.com)

• A Treatise Upon the Useful Science of Defence, Connecting the Small and Back-Sword, and Shewing the Affinity Between Them (London: T. Gardner, 1747), by John Godfrey (PDF page images at MSU)

• The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas, contrib. by Auguste Maquet
  • Gutenberg multiple formats
  • HTML at FireBlade
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Three Musketeers (2 volumes "translated from the latest French edition"; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by Alexandre Dumas, contrib. by Auguste Maquet, illust. by Maurice Leloir
  • Part 1: page images at HathiTrust
  • Part 2 (volume titled "Milady"): page images at HathiTrust

• Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), ed. by Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• An Enquiry Into the Origin of Honour and the Usefulness of Christianity in War, by Bernard Mandeville (Gutenberg text)

• By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1999), by Nancy Shields Kollmann
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1999), by Nancy Shields Kollmann
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Aldo D. Scaglione (HTML at UC Press)
• Ritterzeit und Ritterwesen (2 volumes in German; Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1823), by Johann Gustav Büsching
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• The Two Noble Kinsmen, by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
• Ivanhoe (libretto, some music, and commentary), by Julian Sturgis and Arthur Sullivan (multimedia at Gilbert and Sullivan Archive)

• The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc, by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba, trans. by Robert S. Rudder (Gutenberg text)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain (multiple editions)
• The Once and Future King (c1958), by T. H. White (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Black Arrow, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • HTML at kellscraft.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1923), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Knight of St. John: A Romance (3 volumes; London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1817), by Anna Maria Porter
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Clemence Housman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Musta Nuoli (The Black Arrow in Finnish; c1913), by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• Sir Cleges; Sir Libeaus Desconus: Two Old English Metrical Romances Rendered Into Prose (London: D. Nutt, 1902), trans. by Jessie L. Weston, illust. by Caroline Watts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

More items available under broader and related terms at left.