Speculum Mortis: Reflections of Chivalry and Courtly Society in the Age of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Arthur, Karen Maria.
Speculum Mortis: Reflections of Chivalry and Courtly Society in the Age of Chaucer
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2671A.
- Description
- Warfare and plague made English people of the later fourteenth century unprecedentedly aware of death. The Black Prince and John of Gaunt's first father-in-law, despite their heroic image in chronicles, died of unromantic diseases.
- Like "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," KnT and TC combine seemingly meaningless death with the courtly and chivalric, revealing Chaucer's philosophic probing.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.