Troilus Philocaptus: A Case Study in 'Amor Heroes'
- Author / Editor
- Gamble, Giles Y.
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.