Batt, Catherine. "'Sir Gawain And The Green Knight' And The Idea Of Righteousness." Modern Language Review 88.4 (1993): 937-938. Print.
Catherine Batt’s argument is to agree with scholar Gerald Morgan that a proper reading of mediaeval texts requires understanding the mind of the person or people that created it. There are particular fourteenth-century ideas emphasized in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, such as the pentangle, the symbolism of which must be heavily considered when reading the poem. In other words, modern readers should not apply modern views to the poem, such as views about ...