Aspects of Order in the Knight's Tale.

Author / Editor
Halverson, John.

Title
Aspects of Order in the Knight's Tale.

Published
Studies in Philology 57 (1960): 606-21.

Description
Reinforces studies of structural and thematic order in KnT, identifying a threefold pattern of ordering principles: a backdrop natural order of cycles, rituals, folk customs; the noble social ordering of chivalry and tournament; and the universal, Boethian order of temples, gods, and the heavens.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations