Cross-legged Knights and Signification in Medieval Tomb Sculpture

Author / Editor
Dressler, Rachel.

Title
Cross-legged Knights and Signification in Medieval Tomb Sculpture

Published
Studies in Iconography 21: 91-121, 2000.

Description
High- and late-medieval tomb effigies show knights possessing muscular corporeality, a feature emphasized (through contrast with the Squire) in the GP portrait of the Knight.

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