The Significance of the Tradition of Nature in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Kurtz, Diane Gray.
The Significance of the Tradition of Nature in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 6116A.
- Description
- In TC idolatrous love is rationalized by being conceived as one of the workings of nature. By Chaucer's time the Augustinian view of the valuelessness of temporal activities had been modified so that St. Thomas Aquinas could attach positive value to temporal pleasures. However, limits are set. Troilus sinned by overstepping the limits.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.