'Mappa Mundi' and 'The Knight's Tale': The Geography of Power, the Technology of Control
- Author / Editor
- Tomasch, Sylvia.
'Mappa Mundi' and 'The Knight's Tale': The Geography of Power, the Technology of Control
- Published
- Mark L. Greenberg and Lance Schachterle, eds. Literature and Technology (Bethlehem, Penn.: Lehigh University Press, 1992), pp. 66-98.
- Description
- Theseus's attempts to impose order upon his world reveal Chaucer's familiarity with medieval cartographical constructs as well as their underlying intellectual visions and political motives. This is most apparent in the construction of Theseus's ampitheatre, shaped like the "O" forming the boundary of most medieval maps.
- Contributor
- Greenberg, Mark L., ed.
- Schachterle, Lance, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Literature and Technology.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.