Writing a Building: Chaucer's Knowledge of the Construction Industry and the Language of the Knight's Tale

Author / Editor
Hallissy, Margaret.

Title
Writing a Building: Chaucer's Knowledge of the Construction Industry and the Language of the Knight's Tale

Published
Chaucer Review 32(1998): 239-59.

Description
A close reading of passages in KnT reveals Chaucer's close familiarity with the medieval construction industry. Although Chaucer supervised building rather than creating buildings, as a poet, he is supreme master over his own creative process.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.