The Knight Builds the World

A Riff on Mary Harrington's "Trads, Cads, and Rads"

I have taught the Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Knight’s Tale” in my humanities class for 14 of the past 15 years. I initially read it as an undergad, then again in an insufferable grad school seminar that was as “on brand” as you can imagine: obsequious and pandering students with an obsequious and pandering Boomer professor. It was post-this and post-that, and …