The Knight's Tale and Trecento Italian Historiography

Author / Editor
McGregor, James H.

Title
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.