Chaucer's Knight and Some of His Fellow-Fighters

Author / Editor
Mroczkowski, Przemyslaw.

Title
Chaucer's Knight and Some of His Fellow-Fighters

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988), pp. 40-58.

Description
Elucidates the puzzling portrait of the GP Knight by "historical information on chivalry" and especially on knights who went to Prussia as "Crusaders"; modifies opposing views of the Knight (as chivalric ideal or murderous hypocrite).

Alternative Title
Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.