Chaucer's Warrior Bowman: The Roles and Equipment of the Knight's Yeoman
- Author / Editor
- Thompson, Kenneth J.
Chaucer's Warrior Bowman: The Roles and Equipment of the Knight's Yeoman
- Published
- Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 386-415.
- Description
- Although the Knight's Yeoman may be a "forster" (1.117) before all else, the skills he would possess in that role "would find ready application on military campaign," which helps to explain the Knight's choice of his Yeoman, rather than another servant, to accompany him (GP 1.101).
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Knight and His Tale.