Aristotelian Ideas in Chaucer's 'Troilus': A Preliminary Study

Author / Editor
Grennen, Joseph E.

Title
Aristotelian Ideas in Chaucer's 'Troilus': A Preliminary Study

Published
Medievalia et Humanistica 14 (1986): 125-38.

Description
Chaucer's concept of "fyn," or end, is illuminated by the "Nicomachean Ethics" of Aristotle, which is more important as a source for Chaucer than has been recognized.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.