page_title: The Knight's Tale
hierarchical_section_title: The Knight's Tale
caption_attribution_description: English: Scan of en:Ellesmere manuscript of Canterbury Tales. The first page of Knight's Tale.
context_page_description: "The Knight's Tale" is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
  The Knight is described by Chaucer in the "General Prologue" as the person of highest social standing amongst the pilgrims, though his manners and clothes are unpretentious. We are told that he has taken part in some fifteen crusades in many countries and also fought for one pagan leader against another. Though the list of campaigns is real, "and though it was perhaps just possible for one man to have been in them all, [it] is probably idealized." Chaucer's portrait of the Knight in the "Prologue" "is generally thought to show a man of unsullied ideals, though some see him as a mercenary." He is accompanied on his pilgrimage by the Squire, his 20-year-old son.
  The story introduces themes and arguments typically encountered in the literature of knighthood, including courtly love and ethical dilemmas.
context_section_description: "The Knight's Tale" (Middle English: The Knightes Tale) is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
  The Knight is described by Chaucer in the "General Prologue" as the person of highest social standing amongst the pilgrims, though his manners and clothes are unpretentious. We are told that he has taken part in some fifteen crusades in many countries and also fought for one pagan leader against another. Though the list of campaigns is real, "and though it was perhaps just possible for one man to have been in them all, [it] is probably idealized." Chaucer's portrait of the Knight in the "Prologue" "is generally thought to show a man of unsullied ideals, though some see him as a mercenary." He is accompanied on his pilgrimage by the Squire, his 20-year-old son.
  The story introduces themes and arguments typically encountered in the literature of knighthood, including courtly love and ethical dilemmas.
caption: The first page of Knight's Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript
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