Aristotelian Ideas in Chaucer's 'Troilus': A Preliminary Study
- Author / Editor
- Grennen, Joseph E.
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.