In Pursuit of "Trewth": Ambiguity and Meaning in
"Amis and Amiloun."
- Author / Editor
- Haught, Leah.
In Pursuit of "Trewth": Ambiguity and Meaning in
"Amis and Amiloun."
"Amis and Amiloun."
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114 (2015): 240-60.
- Description
- The Middle English romance "Amis and Amiloun" explores the complex concept of "trewth" in the fourteenth century. This essay contends that the binding oath made by childhood friends is reminiscent of the agreement of the GP pilgrims, as well as pledges made in FranT, ClT, and WBT, but differs from the pledge binding Palamon and Arcite in KnT
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Knight and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale