Chaucer and the Nature of Chivalric Ideas
- Author / Editor
- Palmer, David Andrew.
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.