Chaucer and the Chivalric Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Edsall, Donna Marie.
Chaucer and the Chivalric Tradition
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 41 (1981): 2663A.
- Description
- The fourteenth century accepted literary conventions of the love code and approved warfare with honor and profit conjoined. Chaucer understands chivalry without attacking it: Theseus, in KnT, is an idealized knight modeled on Edward III; Th ridicules bourgeois misunderstanding of chivalry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Tale of Sir Thopas.