The Double Bind of Chivalric Sexuality in Late Medieval Romance.

Author / Editor
Mitchell-Smith, Ilan.

Title
The Double Bind of Chivalric Sexuality in Late Medieval Romance.

Published
In Jennifer N. Brown and Maria Segol, eds. Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 101-21.

Description
Includes discussion of KnT in a group of late-medieval English romances that differ from Continental romances in that they "outline a male heterosexual model informed by a Boethian contemptus mundi theme in which sobriety and reservedness replaces eroticism and sexual desire as the center and defining factor of sexual identity."

Contributor
Brown, Jennifer N., ed.
Segol, Maria, ed.

Alternative Title
Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale