Bodiam Castle and "The Canterbury Tales": Some Intersections.
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Matthew.
Bodiam Castle and "The Canterbury Tales": Some Intersections.
- Published
- Medieval Archeology 64 (2020): 302-29.
- Description
- Argues that CT (specifically GP, KnT, MilT, and RvT) and Bodiam Castle "converge as ideological constructions," comparing the lives of Chaucer and Sir Edward Dallingridge (builder of Bodiam)--both witnessed at the Scrope vs. Grosvenor trial--and connecting "the anxieties, tensions, gaps, silences and contradictions that lie below the surface of the formal, normative values" of their works. Posits that Dallingridge may underlie aspects of the characterization of Chaucer's Knight.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Knight and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale