The Uncourteous Knights of The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Taylor, Paul Beekman.

Title
The Uncourteous Knights of The Canterbury Tales

Published
English Studies 72 (1991): 209-18.

Description
Chaucer's knights reflect three errors in their service of love: (1) the subjection of women's bodies to male wills for the sake of public order and honor (KnT, FranT, PhyT); (2) the rapine pursuit of women's bodies for pride or lust (MLT, WBT, MerT); and (3) the quest for an ideal in the absence of a person (KnT, Th).

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.