The Historical Basis of Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- DiMarco, Vincent.
The Historical Basis of Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale'
- Published
- Edebiyat, n.s., 1:2 (1989): 1-22
- Description
- The setting and select characters of SqT have historical basis in the reigns of Ozbeg Khan of the Golden Horde at Sarai (ruled 1313-41) and Mamluk sultan el-Melik en-Nasir at Cairo (ruled variously 1291-1340). Their failed alliance influenced the politics of the fourteenth-century Crusades, and Mongol custom may underlie several details of SqT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.