Separations and St. Paul's Thorn in Chaucer's 'Troilus'

Author / Editor
Hiscoe, David W.

Title
Separations and St. Paul's Thorn in Chaucer's 'Troilus'

Published
David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990), pp. 35-49.

Description
Although the narrator of TC tries to separate pagan from Christian and body from spirit, the poem's allusions to 2 Corinthinians are an "indictment of (his) disastrous attempt to sunder the heavenly and the earthly."

Alternative Title
Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.