Troilus Philocaptus: A Case Study in 'Amor Heroes'

Author / Editor
Gamble, Giles Y.

Title
Troilus Philocaptus: A Case Study in 'Amor Heroes'

Published
Studia Neophilologica 60 (1988): 175-78.

Description
Medieval medical writers regarded love-sickness quite seriously as a disease, a form of madness. Chaucer's extensive use of medical terminology in TC renders his treatment of the lover's affliction more clinical, analytical, and critical than is Boccaccio's.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.