Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Emotions in the Epic

The Knight’s Tale continues the epic tradition and is worth reading from the perspective of the history of emotions, which allows us to interpret not only texts written after the “affective turn” of the eighteenth century, but also earlier ones. Emotions can be “found” in Chaucer’s text, to mention only honour as a “lost” emotion. Other questions that need to be addressed are the weakening or empowering potential of emotions and feelings as something that is able to change collective bodies.