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...World Astray. Some of Dawson's essays turn over bits of information that the nonscholarly reader hardly expects to find. (Sample: Christianity got its ideas about courtly love and chivalrous knighthood from the Moslem civilizations of Spain.) But he seldom loses sight of the central struggle of the Middle Ages: the effort to build a truly universal Christian civilization-"the City of God on earth." Mostly the struggle was in the form of competition between the Church and the Holy Roman Empire-"between the ideal of a theocratic empire and that of a theocratic church, each of which...
...dialogue. And yet authors Sidney Gilliat and Leslie Bailey rise sometimes to Gilbertian heights of whimsy. ("My dear," coss Gilbert to his wife, "how does it feel to be married to a transcendent genius?") Beginning with their Trial By Jury success and ending with Gilbert's elevation to knighthood after Sullivan's death, the film neatly skirts the high points of the duo's joint career. Instead, it brings to bear the full force of superficial analysis on the dissension that had them taking bows from opposite sides of the stage. Gilliat and Bailey astutely conclude that the famous carpet...
...classroom but as an official in London's Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1931, when he became a professor of fine arts at the University of Edinborough, embarrassed officials hastily granted him an M.A. To this, Leeds later added an honorary doctorate. His most recent honor was election to knighthood last New Year...
...merry truth about Sullivan (who did nothing worse than lonesomeness will make an emotional bachelor do), the moviemakers were doubtless bent on getting their man past the modern censors. In his own time, Sullivan was approved by a rather stricter custodian of morals: Queen Victoria, who granted him a knighthood...
...Sword and the Rose (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is an old-fashioned piece of historical romance done with stylized charm and sly wit. Based on Charles Major's popular 1898 novel, When Knighthood Was in Flower, it tells the love story of Princess Mary Tudor (1496-1533) and Captain of the Guard Charles Brandon. Before the two lovers were married in 1515, Mary had to overcome the objections of her brother, King Henry VIII, submit to a short-lived political marriage with aging, ailing King Louis XII of France, and, according to the movie, contend with the machinations...