Pandarus' Cushion and the 'pluma Sardanapalli'

Author / Editor
Friedman, John B.

Title
Pandarus' Cushion and the 'pluma Sardanapalli'

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 75 (1976): 41-55.

Description
The cushion Pandarus fetches Troilus in Book III of TC linked for Chaucer's audience "Luxuria" and "Fortuna." Juvenal, Boccaccio, and contemporary iconography associated cushions with Sardanapalus, and thence with beds and lust. The analogy of Troilus' bed with that of Boethius connected the cushion with Fortune.
Seven illustrations.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.