Chaucer and War
- Author / Editor
- Pratt, John H.
Chaucer and War
- Published
- Lanham, Md., New York, and Oxford : University Press of America, 2000.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 259 pp.
- Description
- Studies Chaucer's views of war and chivalry, examining biographical and historical data as background to assessments of TC, KnT, and the GP sketches of the Knight and Squire. Pratt summarizes medieval theories of warfare and "just war" and discusses Chaucer's military terminology and metaphors of war throughout his works. Chaucer was shaped by the prevalent militarism of his society.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Squire and His Tale.