"Lectio difficilior" and All That: Another Look at Arcite's Injury.

Author / Editor
Stallcup, Stephen.

Title
"Lectio difficilior" and All That: Another Look at Arcite's Injury.

Published
Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds. Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016), pp. 43-58.

Description
Explores textual and lexical ambiguities in the scene of Arcite's mortal fall in KnT (I.2684–91), discussing "furie" (forty manuscripts read some form of fire), "pighte," and "pomel" (neither of which is lexically certain). Suggests that emending "heed" to "stede" at line 2689 resolves the ambiguities of the latter two.

Alternative Title
Magistra doctissima

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies