The 'Knight's Tale' and the Hundred Years' War

Author / Editor
Cowgill, Bruce Kent.

Title
The 'Knight's Tale' and the Hundred Years' War

Published
Philological Quarterly 54 (1975): 670-79.

Description
The tournament described in Part IV is archaic. Chaucer's purpose is to dissociate the Knight from the ideals of his age and thus align the tale with its narrator's portrait in the GP as an implicit reproval of the Hundred Years' War.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.