War and Peace in the Middle Ages and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Goller, Karl Heinz.

Title
War and Peace in the Middle Ages and Chaucer

Published
Brian Patrick McGuire, ed. War and Peace in the Middle Ages (Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzels Forlag, 1987), pp. 118-45.

Description
After a discussion of good and evil in medieval romance, especially Arthurian matter, Goller turns to authors who express opinions about war: Wycliffe, a pacifist, and Gower and Chaucer, who are ambivalent about war. Examines Chaucer's KnT, Mel, Bo, Form Age, and ParsT.

Contributor
McGuire, Brian Patrick,ed.

Alternative Title
War and Peace in the Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.