Chaucer's Unkempt Knight

Author / Editor
Lester, G. A.

Title
Chaucer's Unkempt Knight

Published
English Language Notes 27:1 (1989): 25-29.

Description
The "De re militari" of Flavius Vegetius Renatus--translated three times into Middle English-condemns poorly kept armor. This passage supports the argument of Terry Jones ("Chaucer's Knight" SAC 5 (1983), no.137) that the physical deterioration of the knight's armor "symbolized to his age the decline of that institution."

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