ABSTRACT Unlike its three companion poems, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is set entirely in a temporal world, with no access to transcendence. This article explores its many evocations of time, sequence, and simultaneity, supporting Derek Pearsall’s claim that the religious values in it are absorbed into chivalric secularity.

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