Chaucer's Hard Cases
- Author / Editor
- Fowler, Elizabeth.
Chaucer's Hard Cases
- Published
- Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds. Medieval Crime and Social Control (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp.124-42.
- Description
- Reads KnT as an example of Chaucer's "deliberative mode," whereby the reader is compelled to perceive or decide a choice. KnT deliberates whether conquest or consent is the proper source of monarchical dominion. Through pointed occupatio and the "loudly unheard" claims of Ypolita and Emelye, the Tale defends consent and critiques conquest.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Crime and Social Control.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.