Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary

by TerryJones (Author), TerryJones (Author)

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  Paperback
  1982

  $13.93

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $7.97

  This study by former Monty Python member Terry Jones, now reissued with a new foreword, questions the accepted view of Chaucer's knight as a conventional and virtuous pillar of the establishment, and concentrates on the historical reality of the mercenary knight common on the battlefields of Chaucer's day, a perspective which calls for a reassessment of The Knight's Tale 's usual interpretation as courtly romance.