O Love O Charite!: Contraries Harmonized in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Author / Editor
- Rowe, Donald W.
O Love O Charite!: Contraries Harmonized in Chaucer's 'Troilus'
- Published
- Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press,
- 1976.
- Physical Description
- 201 pp.
- Description
- TC is best understood in terms of the tradition of "discordia concors," the harmonization of opposites, which Chaucer saw exemplified in the "school of Chartres" and Jean de Meun. Chaucer's profound philosophical insight, which linked the perfection of poetic form and acute delineation of character, successfully resolves the opposing values of love and charity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.