Prudence and Artificial Memory in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Schibanoff, Susan.
Prudence and Artificial Memory in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- ELH 42 (1975): 507-17.
- Description
- The vivid association of the dramatic action of TC with its physical settings reflects a medieval rhetorical technique whereby architectural images ("loci") were employed as aids to organization and memory. The perception of the significance of these "loci" by the poem's omniscient audience recalls the three eyes of Prudence: memory, intelligence, foresight.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.