Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" and the Limits of Human Order in the Pagan World

Author / Editor
Curtis, Carl C. III

Title
Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" and the Limits of Human Order in the Pagan World

Published
Lewiston, N. Y.: Mellen, 2008.

Physical Description
x, 262 pp.

Description
The first two chapters of this book look at the Knight and KnT in the context of the "heroic life." The Allegory of Rule and the Allegory of Love offer ways to understand Palamon and Arcites's fight in the wood. The second two chapters examine the importance of Athens--its constitution, failure, and refounding--as location of the pagan world.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale