With Book VI, Edmund Spenser brings The Faerie Queene to its moral completion. After holiness, temperance, chastity, friendship, and justice, he turns to a virtue often misunderstood: Courtesy. For Spenser, courtesy is not mere manners or polish; it is virtue made visible in daily human life. The knight of this book, Sir Calidore, is introduced as one who embodies gentle strength: “Of all the vertues which in man are found,/Courtesy is the chiefest of them all.” Courte