A Knyght Ther Was

Author / Editor
Calabrese, Michael A.

Title
A Knyght Ther Was

Published
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 1-13.

Description
Summarizes the medieval history of knighthood and its status in late-fourteenth-century England, exploring implications of details in the GP sketch of the Knight, especially those that relate to the "Crusading spirit" in its positive and negative connotations.

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales."

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.