Medieval Literature and Social Politics: Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts.

Description: Anthologizes seventeen essays by Knight, “written over several decades focused on the social and political contexts of medieval literature," three previously unpublished, one of which pertains to Chaucer: Chapter 14, "Chaucer’s Fabliaux and Late Medieval Structures of Feeling." It shows ways in which "socio-political challenge" is a "key element" in Chaucer's uses of the fabliau genre, assessing the forms and structures of challenge in MilT, RvT, CkT, and the apocryphal "Tale of Gamelyn," with briefer comments on fabliau elements and socio-political challenge elsewhere in CT.

Alternative Title: Chaucer's Fabliaux and Late Medieval Structures of Feeling.

Chaucer Subjects: Background and General Criticism
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale
Cook and His Tale
Chaucerian Apocrypha