'Goddes Speken in Amphibologies': The Ambiguous Future of Chaucer's Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, Alastair J.
'Goddes Speken in Amphibologies': The Ambiguous Future of Chaucer's Knight's Tale
- Published
- PoeticaT 55 : 23-37, 2001.
- Description
- Minnis surveys depictions of ambiguous pagan oracles in medieval literature, including Calchas's foreknowledge in TC and the temple scenes in KnT, arguing that Chaucer and other medieval poets held that pagans as well as Christians had the ability and agency to affect future events.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.