Courtly Love or Christian Love: Animal Imagery in Book I of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Bjork, Lennart A.

Title
Courtly Love or Christian Love: Animal Imagery in Book I of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Mats Ryden and Lennart A. Bjork, eds. Studies in English Philology, Linguistics, and Literature Presented to Alarik Rynell 7 March 1978. Stockholm Studies in English, no. 46 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1978), pp. 1-20.

Description
The courtly love interpretations of TC are not plausible; TC offers a burlesque of courtly love. In support of the exegetical promotion of "caritas," serious flaws in Troilus's character are revealed in animal imagery.

Contributor
Ryden, Mats,
Bjork, Lennart A.,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
Studies in English Philology, Linguistics, and Literature Presented to Alarik Rynell 7 march 1978.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.