The Matter of Armenia in the Age of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Collette, Carolyn P., and Vincent J. DiMarco.
The Matter of Armenia in the Age of Chaucer
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23: 317-58, 2001.
- Description
- Summarizes the political history of the fall of Armenia in 1375, surveying its impact on the court of Richard II and its status as a "haunting symbol" of catastrophe in Middle English literature. Discusses SqT, Anel, the description of the Knight in GP, MkT, MLT, "Bevis of Hamptoune," "The King of Tars," and other works. Levon VI, the toppled king of Armenia, sought a truce between England and France (perhaps prompting the 1387 negotiations in which Chaucer participated), promoted by Philippe de Mézières as a means to regain the Holy Land from Islam.
- Contributor
- DiMarco, Vincent J.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Squire and His Tale.
- Anelida and Arcite.
- Knight and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Monk and His Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.