Costume Rhetoric in the Knight's Portrait: Chaucer's Every-Knight and his Bismotered Gypon
- Author / Editor
- Hodges, Laura F.
Costume Rhetoric in the Knight's Portrait: Chaucer's Every-Knight and his Bismotered Gypon
- Published
- Chaucer Review 29 (1995): 274-302.
- Description
- The multilayered details of the Knight's clothing represent both a realistic and a symbolic knight, whose profession of chivalry in the fourteenth century was far from ideal.
- Chaucer's choice of conflicting particulars complicates the portrait of this pilgrim.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.