"Ancestral voices prophesying war": The Representation of the Mongol Empire in Chaucer's "Squire's Tale."

Author / Editor
Kikuchi, Akio.

Title
"Ancestral voices prophesying war": The Representation of the Mongol Empire in Chaucer's "Squire's Tale."

Published
Tohoku Romantic Studies 2 (2015): 1–14.

Description
Considers why the tale of the Mongol Empire is allocated to the young Squire. Points out the Squire's idealistic representation of the royal family of the Empire and discusses Chaucer's possible attitude toward SqT, taking fourteenth-century political affairs into account. In Japanese.

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale