... Gawain's garter gained increasing significance in the British imagination with the founding of the Order of the Garter, which Leo Carruthers describes as England's first chivalric order, founded by Edward III around the year 1348, "an event of European importance which struck the imagination of princes and poets everywhere" (67-68) While some believe the motto of the Order of the ... ). Indeed, Gawain's garter has undergone a great metamorphosis here, from being a symbol of Bercilak's world of the natural and spiritual to being a symbol of chivalry; of Arthur's court and of Edward III's....

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