Chivalry under Siege in Ricardian Romance

Author / Editor
Wetherbee, Winthrop.

Title
Chivalry under Siege in Ricardian Romance

Published
Ivy A. Corfis and Michael Wolfe, eds. The Medieval City under Siege (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1995), pp. 207-23.

Description
Surveys how chivalry is promoted or assumed in various medieval romances and argues that it is critiqued in TC, KnT, and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
TC shows the "chivalric ideal suspended in a state of blind and seemingly helpless complicity in its own betrayal"; in KnT, the temple of Mars reveals the realities of late-medieval warfare to be in tension with courtly ideals.

Contributor
Corfis, Ivy A.,
Wolfe, Michael,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
The Medieval City under Siege.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Knight and His Tale.