Chaucer's Precarious Knight

Author / Editor
Ebner, Dean.

Title
Chaucer's Precarious Knight

Published
Huttar, Charles A., ed. Imagination and Spirit: Essays in Literature and the Christian Faith Presented to Clyde S. Kilby (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdman's, 1971), pp. 87-100.

Description
Reads the Knight's interruption of the Monk (7.2767ff.) as evidence of his "anxiety" about the view of Fortune implicit in the fall of princes tradition. The GP description of the Knight indicates his "preference for worldly wealth and fame that trigger his opposition" to MkT, and KnT similarly reflects attachment to worldly affluence which makes the narrator ripe for a fall in fortune.

Contributor
Huttar, Charles A., ed.

Alternative Title
Imagination and Spirit: Essays in Literature and the Christian Faith Presented to Clyde S. Kilby.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Monk and His Tale