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.
- ISBN10 0413496406
- ISBN13 9780413496409
- Publish Date 11 February 1982 (first published 1 January 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English