Chaucer and the Nature of Chivalric Ideas

Author / Editor
Palmer, David Andrew.

Title
Chaucer and the Nature of Chivalric Ideas

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1977): 6507A-08A.

Description
There is a tradition which views the knight's pursuit of love as an inversion of responsibility to God and to society. In CT, the Knight embodies spiritual and social duty whereas the Squire represents a subversion of proper knightly functions.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Squire and His Tale.