Chaucer's Knight's Tale : From Boccaccio to Heresy
- Author / Editor
- Schembri, A. M.
Chaucer's Knight's Tale : From Boccaccio to Heresy
- Published
- Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 5: 15-37, 1997.
- Description
- Chaucer's changes to Boccaccio's "Teseida" in KnT introduce a concern with Cathar heresy. Until Theseus's final speech, the plot reflects cosmic dualism (Saturn and Jupiter), determinism, and pervasive sterility and evil. The poem is also touched by "Inquisitorial language," and its recurrences of temple, endure, and Thrace align with Cathar concerns.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.