Venus' 'Citole' and the Restoration of Harmony in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Tatelbaum, Linda.

Title
Venus' 'Citole' and the Restoration of Harmony in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 74 (1973): 649-64.

Description
Argues that the image of the "citole" in KnT 1959, instead of a "concha" also found in traditional sources, contributes to the theme of "harmonious order" in the poem that is temporarily disrupted by the Venus/Mars strife.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations