Chapter 3: The Significance of English Chivalric Romances describes the main features of English chivalric romances: all-embracing idealism; overarching motifs, like separation-and reunion, exile-and-return, sieges, and quests; typical characters: ladies, knights, stewards true or false, and fair unknowns; amatory motifs: courtly love, intermediaries, and courts of love; and other motifs like single combat. A final commentary on Bradley suggests that he had intimations that of idealism transcending the waste attending the protagonists’ deaths.