Chaucer's Knight as Hero and Machaut's 'Prise d'Alexandrie'

Author / Editor
Brewer, Derek.

Title
Chaucer's Knight as Hero and Machaut's 'Prise d'Alexandrie'

Published
Leo Carruthers, ed. Heroes and Heroines in Medieval English Literature: A Festschrift Presented to Andre Crepin on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 81-96.

Description
Like Peter of Cyprus, celebrated in Machaut's "Prise," Chaucer's Knight is a hero, his lists of battles showing him to be a Crusader-knight virtuous in devotion to duty. Chaucer deemed the knightly ideal possible in his contemporary world.

Alternative Title
Heroes and Heroines in Medieval English Literature: A Festschrift Presented to Andre Crepin on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.