Ge.offrey Chaucer

Author / Editor
Paravicini, Werner.

Title
Ge.offrey Chaucer

Published
Adlig leben im 14. Jahrhundert: Weshalb sie fuhren. Die Preußenreisen des europäischen Adels, Part 3 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020), pp. 138-44.

Description
Part of Paravicini’s three-volume study of the crusades against Lithuania undertaken by the Teutonic order, focusing on literary backgrounds to the chivalric imagination underlying the crusades. Includes evidence of tensions between crusading and courtly ideals, quoting the GP description of the Knight and passages from KnT, FranT, MkT, Th, and BD, each with German translation.

Alternative Title
Jahrhundert: Weshalb sie fuhren. Die Preußenreisen des europäischen Adels.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Knight and His Tale