The Blazon of Honour: A Study in Renaissance Magnanimity.
- Author / Editor
- Greaves, Margaret.
The Blazon of Honour: A Study in Renaissance Magnanimity.
- Published
- London: Methuen, 1964.
- Physical Description
- 142 pp.
- Description
- Studies the uses, meanings, and nuances of the concept of magnanimity in the English Middle Ages and Renaissance, including discussion of Chaucer, who, although "he makes no full-scale attempt to portray the magnanimous man in his wholeness," approaches the ideal in his depictions of the Knight and in the characters of KnT and FranT, describing the latter as "one of the most gracious stories of the medieval world." Also comments on gentilesse in BD and in WBT and other tales of the marriage group.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Language and Word Studies
Book of the Duchess
Knight and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale