"Lectio difficilior" and All That: Another Look at Arcite's Injury.
- Author / Editor
- Stallcup, Stephen.
"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