Classical Gods and Christian God: Religious Allusions and the Moral of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Wejksnora, Louise R.

Title
Classical Gods and Christian God: Religious Allusions and the Moral of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1986): 1317A.

Description
Examination of all references and allusions to the Christian God and pagan gods in TC reveals that Chaucer works within a broad spectrum of tonal variations in the classical and medieval traditions. The poem carries simultaneously two opposing yet internally consistent readings.