[2] Text and line number follow Chaucer, Geoffrey, Chaucer: The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, The Nonne Preestes Tale ed. Morris, R. based on previous text by Skeat, W.W. (Oxford, UK.: Clarendon Press, 1949). Line numbers for the Knight’s Tale begin at the beginning of the Tale and do not continue from the General Prologue

[3] Ibid, p. 131-132; also Benson, L.D,. The Riverside Chaucer. 3^rd ed. (Boston, Ma.: Houghton Mifflin, 1987). P. 801

[4] The source for Boccaccio’s text Havely, N.R., Chaucer’s Boccaccio: Sources for Troilus and the Knight’s and Franklin’s Tales (Suffolk, UK.: Boydell & Brewer, 1980).

[5] Statius, The Thebiad trans. Charles Stanley Ross (London & Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).

[6] Boccaccio, in one of the few uses of astrology in the Teseida, tells us that Venus was in Taurus and Jupiter was in Pisces at the time: both planetary benefics were in strong positions by zodiacal sign. For Chaucer this was not such a benevolent event. Havely, N.R . Chaucer’s Boccaccio p. 111-112

[7] Robertson, D. W., A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1969) p. 258.

[8] The clearest exposition of the planetary days and hours in the Knight’s Tale is from Curry, W. Chaucer and the Medieval Sciences (New York: Oxford University Press, 1926), pp. 125-126. See Chaucer, Geoffrey, Chaucer: The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, The Nonne Preestes Tale for further information about the specific days of the week in the Knight’s Tale.

[9] According to Sirius 1.1 astrology software program, 6 May 1388, set for London, UK. – around the time of the composition of the Knight’s Tale, Saturn would have taken over as planetary hour ruler at 7:25 PM. On Tuesdays, Saturn is the ruler for the last planetary hour before sunset.

[10] See Curry, W. Chaucer and the Medieval Sciences, pp. 155-163, Mann, J. “Chance and destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight’s Tale” from Boitani, P. & Mann, J. (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (Cambridge, UK.: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 106-109.

[11] See Dante’s Purgatorio Canto 16:67-84 and Crane (2007), p 208-224.

[12] Boccaccio, in his notes accompanying the Treseida and commenting on the Temple of Mars, divides our limiting appetites into the “concupiscible” appetite of desire and the “irascible” appetite of aggression. For Chaucer these are associated with Venus and Mars respectively. (Havely, N.R. Chaucer’s Boccaccio, pp. 126-127).

[13] Curry, W. Chaucer and the Medieval Sciences, p. 103

[14] Curry, W. Chaucer and the Medieval Sciences, p. 119

[15] Aers, D. “Imagination, Order, and The Knight’s Tale”, p. 180.

[16] Robertson, D.W. A Preface to Chaucer, p. 260-266.

[17] Muscatine, C., “The Knight’s Tale”, from Chaucer and the French Tradition: A Study in Style and Meaning , Berkeley, 1957, pp. 175-190 at http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/bibliog/musc-kt.htm (accessed November, 2012) p. 183, 184.

[18] Marti, J, “The Representation of Chivalry in The Knight’s Tale. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 13 (2000): 161-173 at http://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/5356/1/RAEI_13_13.pdf (accessed September, 2012).

[19] Bonatti, Guido, Book of Astronomy Vol. 1, trans. Benjamin Dykes (Golden Valley, Mn.: Cazimi Press, 2007) p. 164.

[20] Ibn-Ezra, Abraham, The Beginning of Wisdom. trans. Epstein, M. (Reston, Va.: Arhat Publications, 1998), p. 99

[21] Havely, N.R., Chaucer’s Boccaccio, p. 110

[22] Ibid., p.111

[23] “The selfless generosity transcends the values we have seen him and others pursuing. It is an impressive manifestation of human love, a glimmer of the human potential distorted and perverted by the culture over which Theseus presides, one where the appropriate metaphysical beings are the vicious deities ordered by Saturn.” Aers, David, Imagination, Order, and Ideology, p. 185

[24] Guidry, M. S., “The Parliaments of Gods and Men in the Knight’s Tale” p. 5