The Green Knight: History, Myth, and Modern Shame -- A Historian's View
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Knights of the Round Table by Lowery Rath
The idea of honor was expansive. It covered the whole range of what we would consider internal and exteral motives. The fact that gawayne technically is already a knight at the beginning of the poem doesn't diminish it at all. One had to constantly uphold and defend one's honor, and if one failed to do so, one was subject to a certain kind of impostor sindrome. And i think that it's not hard to see that kind of psychology at work in the knights of the round table.
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