Fate and Freedom in 'The Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Schweitzer, Edward C.

Title
Fate and Freedom in 'The Knight's Tale'

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 3 (1981): 13-45.

Description
Precise astrological material and medical details pertaining to the disease "amor hereos" support the theory that Saturn and the fury that startles Arcite's horse dramatize the consequences of human choice rather than fatalism. Chaucer uses Boethius's "Consolation" to turn apparent contradictions between universal order and particular disorder into significant paradox.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.