White and Red in the 'Knight's Tale': Chaucer's Manipulation of Convention
- Author / Editor
- Blanch, Robert J., and Julian N. Wasserman.
White and Red in the 'Knight's Tale': Chaucer's Manipulation of Convention
- Published
- Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 175-91.
- Description
- The iconographic meaning of the colors red and white had been lost in folk traditions by the time Chaucer wrote KnT. Meaning comes from the joining of the two colors--a symbol of unity. Palamon's and Arcite's choices of colors for their banners represent the division between them.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer in the Eighties.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.