Wisdom and Chivalry: Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and Medieval Political Theory
- Author / Editor
- Rigby, Stephen H.
Wisdom and Chivalry: Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and Medieval Political Theory
- Published
- Boston: Brill, 2009.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 329 pp.
- Series
- Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, no. 4.
- Description
- Rigby reads KnT as a mirror for princes, comparing it with Giles of Rome's "De regimine principum" and finding Theseus of KnT to be an ideal ruler by this standard. Theseus's personal ethics, his treatment of his household, his political and military activities, and his philosophical outlook are consistent with the ideals expressed in Giles's text and in other medieval political treatises of the Aristotelian tradition. Recurrent attention to Chaucer's use and adaptation of Boccaccio's "Teseida" and Boethius's "Consolation."
- Corrected reprint issud in 2013.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations