Chaucer and Crusader Ethics: Youth, Love, and the Material World.
- Author / Editor
- Elias, Marcel.
Chaucer and Crusader Ethics: Youth, Love, and the Material World.
- Published
- Review of English Studies 70, no. 296 (2019): 618-39.
- Description
- Shows how late medieval "anxieties over the corruption of chivalry" and criticism of the morals, motives, and conduct of crusaders" are reflected in the pairing of the GP descriptions of the Squire and Knight, and in KnT and SqT. Argues that "Chaucer’s critique of crusaders is not . . . effected through the Knight, but through the Squire," evident in comparisons with romances and treatises about the crusades, including that of Henry Despenser.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations