The Indebtedness of the Canterbury Tales to the Clerk-Knight Debates

Author / Editor
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.

Title
The Indebtedness of the Canterbury Tales to the Clerk-Knight Debates

Published
Erik Kooper, ed. This Noble Craft: Proceedings of the Xth Research Symposium of the Dutch and Belgian University Teachers of Old and Middle English and Historical Linguistics.... (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991), pp. 189-99.

Description
Structurally, CT parodies the clerk-knight debate (an early type of courtly-love poem), especially The Council of Remiremont. The idea of a pilgrimage on horseback may derive from these debates as well.

Alternative Title
This Noble Craft

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.