The Ends of Love: (Meta)physical Desire in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Fumo, Jamie C.
The Ends of Love: (Meta)physical Desire in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Robert Epstein and William Robins, eds. Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming (Buffalo, N. Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. 68-90.
- Description
- Fumo reads Criseyde as someone "who does not believe in love" and perhaps "does not believe at all," a representation of fourteenth-century epistemological concerns "reanimated in the context of a Petrarchan psychology of enamourment." Criseyde's comments on love, in contrast to Troilus's, demonstrate that her view is essentially skeptical, perhaps atheistic.
- Alternative Title
- Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.