"The Canterbury Tales" and Late Fourteenth Century Chivalry: Literary Stylization and Historical Idealism.

Author / Editor
Hatton, Thomas Jenison.

Title
"The Canterbury Tales" and Late Fourteenth Century Chivalry: Literary Stylization and Historical Idealism.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.02 (1966): 456-57A.

Description
Uses late-medieval literary and historical sources to define the Anglo-French ideal of a "perfect knight," and applies this understanding to KnT, MkT, WBT, and FranT.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Monk and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Franklin and His Tale