Arcite's Death and the New Surgery in 'The Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Infusino, Mark H., and Ynez Viole O'Neill.
Arcite's Death and the New Surgery in 'The Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 221-30.
- Description
- The bitterest controversy between "ancients" and "moderns" in fourteenth-century medicine concerned the treatment of wounds. Whereas Boccaccio in "Teseida" aligns his "medici" with the ancients and prolongs Arcita's death, Chaucer in KnT aligns himself with moderns and makes the death of Arcite more excruciating and immediate.
- Contributor
- O'Neill, Ynez Viole.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1 (1984)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.