Wack, Mary F.
Pacific Coast Philology 19 (1984): 55-61.
The medieval medical view of love as materialistic, deterministic, and ethically neutral shapes the thematic development of TC. In the first three books, Troilus, Pandarus, and Criseyde are patient, physician, and cure. In bks. 4 and 5, Troilus's…
Heffley, Sylvia Patricia.
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3446A.
Although Christian marriage was well defined by theologians in the twelfth through the thirteenth centuries, the proper role of sexuality remained debatable, as shown in the west portal of Senlis Cathedral, in Jean de Meun's introduction of the…
Gillam, Doreen M. E.
English Studies 63 (1982): 394-401.
Chaucer often used the horse-and-rider image as a metaphor for sexual "maistrie." In Anel the image illustrates Arcite's failure to exercise mastery over either of his ladies, chafing like a restless horse in the service of Anelida while playing the…
Phillippy, Patricia Anne.
Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (1990): 843A.
Consistent with Bakhtinian theory, the palinode as textual stratagem has complicated the interpretation of works from the classics through Stampa and Sidney. The Griselda story as told by Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Chaucer demonstrates the role of…
Defines "courtly love" and "parody" and examines three protagonists as parodic courtly lovers (Aucassin of the anonymous "Aucassin and Nicolette," Troilus of TC, and Calisto of Fernando de Rojas's "Celestina"), assessing them in light of Northrup…
Sanders, Barry.
Papers on Language and Literature 3, supplement (1967): 3-13.
Discusses the theme of distorted love in HF, where "love of self" is depicted as replacing the ideal of "'commune profit,' that is love for others and for the larger order of the universe" held together by the "great chain." Argues that courtly love…
Caldwell, Ellen M.
Studies in Philology 116.2 (2019): 209-26.
Examines the concept of intent and the illusion that is the marriage between Dorigen and Arveragus in order to argue that the message is one not of equality in marriage but of the happiness gained when the woman submits to her husband's authority.…
Larson, Leah Jean.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 1610A
The world view of the Breton Lay, as conceived by Marie de France, changed little before 1400. In FranT, Chaucer expands the genre with increased emphasis on passionate and "egalitarian" love in marriage, troth, and magnanimity, as solution to the…
Studies how the movement from divine to mundane love is bridged by figural allegory in CT (especially PardPT) and in the Arcipreste's "Libro de Buen Amor."
Schembri, A. M.
Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 2 (1992): 1-35.
Influenced by Dante, Chaucer's TC represents the "dramatic interplay" of three kinds of love: "the courtly, the natural, [and] the rational." Chaucer departs from his sources, however, adapting the love of Troilus and Criseyde to an English,…
Smith, Nicole D.
Notes and Queries 258 (2013): 498-502.
Echoes of Peraldus's notion of sin as "amor inordinatus" in the section of ParsT on contrition and confession, thought to have been adapted primarily from Pennaforte, suggest that the former's "Summa de vitiis" "exerts a more significant influence on…
Blamires, Alcuin.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 3-23.
Discusses how Chaucer deals with "regulations and expectations of fourteenth-century Christianity," especially in relation to Chaucer's views on sex, virginity, gender, and marriage. Focuses on BD, PF, TC, ClT, MerT, WBP, NPT, MilT, and PardT.
McCarthy, Conor.
English Studies 83 : 504-18, 2002.
FranT raises problems rather than providing a solution in the Marriage Group. Like ClT, it poses "a problematic marriage agreement" at the outset; like MerT, it shows that disastrous consequences can result from introducing non-marital love into a…
Traces views of the medieval church and of Chaucer's sources for BD and PF. Treats love based on reason, affection, and friendship in sources: Aelred of Rievaulx, Jean de Meun, Thomas Aquinas, and Aristotle.
Kooper, Erik Simon.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 2651A.
The Aristotelian view that the marital relationship can involve friendship (found not in Augustine but in Aelred of Rievaulx and Thomas Aquinas) influenced Jean de Meun, translator of Aelred. De Meun's treatment of the matter in "Roman de la Rose"…
Knowles views deployments of the medieval concept of "service" (which encompassed an elaborate network of interpersonal and institutional relationships) in Langland, Julian of Norwich, and TC.
Sadlek, Gregory M.
Chaucer Review 26 (1992): 350-68.
Chaucer altered his source to make Troilus guilty of the sin of sloth, depicting him as one who dislikes "love's work" and who rarely does it. By exploring this concept of sin in a courtly context, Chaucer shifts the moral focus of his work, causing…
Johnston, Andrew James, Russell West-Pavlov, and Elisabeth Kempf, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
Includes twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors on affect, periodization, queer history, and Chaucer's and Shakespeare's versions of the story of Troilus and Criseyde/Cressida. For nine essays that pertain to Chaucer,…
Flake, Timothy H.
English Studies 77 (1996): 209-26.
Challenges the discussion of Angela M. Lucas and Peter J. Lucas (SAC 15 [1993], no. 215), arguing that the marriage of Dorigen and Arveragus "is a poetic expression of freedom and love brought to life by the power of 'trouthe'," a force so much…
