Troilus, Mars, and Late Medieval Chivalry
- Author / Editor
- Storm, Melvin
Troilus, Mars, and Late Medieval Chivalry
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 12 (1982): 42-65.
- Description
- Allegorical traditions of the Mars and Venus myth were adopted and elaborated upon in the Middle Ages to demonstrate that "passion for woman encroaches upon the masculine cares of war," as in Troilus's shifts from warrior to lover. In the Epilogue of TC, Trolus looks down upon the tyranny of woman over man, or Venus over Mars.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.