"Vitium curiositatis" and Stereotypes in Chaucer's "Squire's Tale."

Author / Editor
Thomas, Reena, and Ethan K. Smilie.

Title
"Vitium curiositatis" and Stereotypes in Chaucer's "Squire's Tale."

Published
Mosaic 52.2 (2019): 129-45.

Description
Looks at how SqT frames the East as stereotypically strange and familiar in order to explore the corrupting effects of "vitium curiositatis" (the vice of curiosity) and the beneficial possibilities of wonder. Argues that Chaucer embraces fragmented and partial knowledge, critiquing "curiositatis" through the Squire's narrative gaps and abrupt ending, and implying that, though wonderful and mysterious, the East can be known.

Contributor
Smilie, Ethan K.

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale
Style and Versification