The Image of Chaucer's Knight

Author / Editor
Jones, Terry.

Title
The Image of Chaucer's Knight

Published
R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse, eds. Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2001), pp. 205-36; 15 color figs.

Description
The GP description of the Knight suggests that he wore clothing and equipment typical of "military opportunism." More specifically, the Knight's dress and career call to mind Sir John Hawkwood, and changes to the Ellesmere portrait of the Knight may have been made to disguise the likeness to Hawkwood.

Alternative Title
Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.