The Influence of Trevet on Boethian Language and Thought in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Gleason, Mark J.

Title
The Influence of Trevet on Boethian Language and Thought in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1985): 2096A.

Description
In his most Boethian poem, Chaucer relies heavily on Nicholas Trevet's "Commentary" on the Consolation of Philosophy, even versifying one of Trevet's glosses and adopting his Aristotelian interpretation.

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