Bernard, Chaucer, and the Literary Critique of the Military Class
- Author / Editor
- Fleming, John V.
Bernard, Chaucer, and the Literary Critique of the Military Class
- Published
- Susan J. Ridyard, ed. Chivalry, Knighthood, and War in the Middle Ages (Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South, 1999), pp. 137-50.
- Description
- Details of the GP description of the Knight reflect the ascetic ideal of knighthood promoted by Bernard of Clairvaux in Liber ad milites templi. Chaucer's Knight is by no means a Templer, but the description harkens back to a related view, perhaps mediated by Philippe de Mézières.
- Alternative Title
- Chivalry, Knighthood, and War in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.