Chaucer's Knight: What's Wrong with Being Worthy?
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson, Jr.
Chaucer's Knight: What's Wrong with Being Worthy?
- Published
- Mediaevalia 15 (1993, for 1989): 183-205.
- Description
- Chaucer initially uses "worthy" for the Knight in GP with clear denotative meaning, but by the word's final appearance its meaning becomes ambiguous. The Knight is not being criticized; rather, the semantic degeneration of "worthy" indicates a corresponding degeneration of the chivalric ideal.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.