The Knight's Tale and Trecento Italian Historiography
- Author / Editor
- McGregor, James H.
The Knight's Tale and Trecento Italian Historiography
- Published
- Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 212-25.
- Description
- The representation of history in KnT is dependent on postplague historiographical views of the Decameron. The Teseida and Chaucer's version of it are tragedies, but with a hope of reconciliation represented in the final marriage.
- Alternative Title
- Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.