Language as a Memory Carrier of Perceptually-Based Knowledge: Selected Aspects of Imagery in Chaucer's "Knight’s Tale" and "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Stadnik, Katarzyna.

Title
Language as a Memory Carrier of Perceptually-Based Knowledge: Selected Aspects of Imagery in Chaucer's "Knight’s Tale" and "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 41 [54] (2015): 127-41.

Description
Summarizes aspects of cognition theory and posits that the "knowledge accumulated by past generations is encapsulated in language" and that, like a "palimpsest," imagery retains "vestiges" of the worldviews of the past. Discusses examples of Fortune's wheel, astral reference, and modal usage ("mot"-) in TC and KnT for the ways they record still apprehensible Ptolemaic assumptions.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale