Cosmology, Contrariety and the 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
McAlindon, T.

Title
Cosmology, Contrariety and the 'Knight's Tale'

Published
Medium AEvum 55 (1986): 41-57.

Description
Discusses the "contrarious juxtaposition" in KnT design as a factor in determinacy. At work in KnT, the familiar medieval "topos" of "concordia discors" and marriage as a mediating device are examined in light of symbol, imagery, and wordplay with reference to Bernardus Silvestris, Boethius, and Alanus de Insulis.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.