Love and Hell: The Denizens of Hades in the Love Poems of the Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Heinrichs, Katherine.

Title
Love and Hell: The Denizens of Hades in the Love Poems of the Middle Ages

Published
Neophilologus 73 (1989): 593-604.

Description
In the allusions to infernal sufferers in medieval poems, the lover and the miser are often linked: both have lost their rational capacity, and the sins of both proceed from cupidity. Hence, such reference in BD and TC show that the Black Knight and Troilus are suffering from destructive passion.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Book of the Duchess.
Troilus and Criseyde.