Found within Consolation are themes that have echoed throughout the Western canon: the female figure of wisdom that informs Dante, the ascent through the layered universe that is shared with Milton, the reconciliation of opposing forces that find their way into Chaucer in The Knight's Tale, and the Wheel of Fortune so popular throughout the Middle Ages.

Boethian influence can be found nearly everywhere in Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry, e. g. in Troilus and Criseyde, The Knight's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, The Parson's Tale and The Tale of Melibee, in the character of Lady Nature in The Parliament of Fowls and some of the shorter poems, such as Truth, The Former Age and Lak of Stedfastnesse.

In " The Knight's Tale " in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Emily prays to Diana to be spared from marriage to either Palamon or Arcite.

Works produced in this period include Filostrato and Teseida ( the sources for Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, respectively ), Filocolo, a prose version of an existing French romance, and La caccia di Diana, a poem in terza rima listing Neapolitan women.

While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.

Theseus likewise appears as a major character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale.

Several of the guest singers recorded new versions of Queen's hits under the Queen + name, such as Robbie Williams providing vocals for " We Are the Champions " for the soundtrack of A Knight's Tale ( 2001 ).

In the 2001 movie A Knight's Tale, the protagonist William Thatcher ( played by Heath Ledger ) poses as a noble and competes in his first jousting tournament at Rouen.

Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary ( 1980 ) offers an alternative take on the historical view of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale as being a paragon of Christian virtue.

In the 2001 feature film A Knight's Tale, Gelderland is the place of origin for William Thatcher's alias, Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein.

* Edward, The Black Prince of Wales, was portrayed by James Purefoy in the 2001 film A Knight's Tale.

William Thatcher, the lead character in the 2001 film A Knight's Tale played by Heath Ledger claimed to be Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein from Gelderland so as to appear to be of noble birth and thus qualify to participate in jousting.

The film takes its title from Chaucer's " The Knight's Tale " in his Canterbury Tales, though the plot is not especially similar.

( The first Canterbury tale is The Knight's Tale.

Newsweek revealed in June 2001 that print ads for at least four movies released by Columbia Pictures, including A Knight's Tale and The Animal ( 2001 ), contained glowing comments from a film reviewer who did not exist.

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Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.

Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.

The most notable example is the Knight's Tour which sets the order of the chapters in Georges Perec's novel Life: A User's Manual.

She is everything that a guy from Knight's Ridge would want in a woman.

From Hell takes as its premise Stephen Knight's theory that the Jack the Ripper murders were part of a conspiracy to conceal the birth of an illegitimate royal baby fathered by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, slightly modified: the involvement of Walter Sickert is reduced, and Knight's allegation that the child's mother was a Catholic has been dropped.

Addams is also mentioned as " Chas Addams " in Edward Eager's fantasy novel Knight's Castle.

The title of Damon Knight's story To Serve Man is a double entendre, it can mean " to perform a service for humanity " or " to serve a human as food ".

He is portrayed as a tyrant in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, and in a later adaptation of the same story, William Shakespeare's and John Fletcher's play The Two Noble Kinsmen.

It is recorded that the citizens of London met Matilda of England at the Knight's Bridge in 1141.

Marathon is a city on Knight's Key, Boot Key, Key Vaca, Fat Deer Key, Long Point Key, Crawl Key and Grassy Key islands in the middle Florida Keys, in Monroe County, Florida, in the United States.

It is thought that the Dymokes first lived at Knight's Green, an area just outside of the village of Dymock.

With Gawain holding the axe aloft, the stage is suddenly blacked out and, within a minute, the action has been rewound to the point preceding the Green Knight's entry to the Court of Arthur.

The southern Knight's Hill Common originally formed part of Lambeth Manor, and contained land called Julian's, which is remembered through the street name of St Julian's Farm Road.

There is a second Knight's Hill to the north, near Thurlow Park Road ( over the Tulse Hill railway tunnel, near West Dulwich railway station – which was originally called Lower Knights Hill station.

The green area is still marked as Knight's Hill on detailed maps, but is normally unmarked on modern streetmaps to avoid confusion.

Reluctantly, Arthur fights the Black Knight and, after a short battle, the Knight's left arm is severed.

Arthur is incredulous at the Black Knight's persistence, and angrily asks the Black Knight if he is going to " bleed on me " to win.

He first came to the attention of mainstream audiences when he appeared in the British film Gangster No. 1 ( 2000 ), and director Brian Helgeland's film A Knight's Tale ( 2001 ).

Starman is also the name of the popular and critically acclaimed comic book series chronicling Jack Knight's adventures, which ran from October 1994 to August 2001, totalling 81 issues as well as some annuals and special issues.

Helgeland directed Ledger, Addy and Sossamon in the 2001 film A Knight's Tale.

Milewicz received many awards and prizes for his work, among them the SAIS-Ciba Prize for Excellence in Journalism by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1995 ( for his work in Chechnya ), the Polish Grand Press Journalist of the Year Award in 2001, as well as several state awards, including two Order of Polonia Restituta medals ( Knight's Cross in 2002 and Officer's Cross posthumously ).

* In the motion picture A Knight's Tale ( 2001 ), among other medieval culinary treats, the character Wat mentions " tansy cakes with peppermint cream.

Other notable film appearances were A Knight's Tale and Vanilla Sky ( both in 2001 ).

* A Knight's Tale ( 2001 )

* A Knight's Tale ( 2001 ) " We Are the Champions " Robbie Williams

In February 2003, it was estimated the many legal challenges by Knight had cost the Victorian Government over A $ 250, 000 and approximately $ 128, 000 had been spent since October 2001 on external legal advice to deal with Knight's legal appeals and Freedom Of Information requests.

Knight's theory features in the final book of Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series, Gods of Riverworld, and novels utilising Knight's book as a base include Robin Paige's Death at Whitechapel ( New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 2000 ) and Anne Perry's The Whitechapel Conspiracy ( London: Headline, 2001 ).

* A Knight's Tale ( 2001 )

In 2001, he played a butler of Chris Rock's character in the movie Down to Earth and also appeared in A Knight's Tale as Roland.

In an episode of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, " The Knife " ( 2001 ), the explorers meet the two men blamed for the murders in Stephen Knight's royal conspiracy theory: Sir William Gull and Robert Anderson.