Medieval Structuralism: 'Dulcarnoun' and the Five-Book Design of Chaucer's 'Troilus'

Author / Editor
Hart, Thomas Elwood.

Title
Medieval Structuralism: 'Dulcarnoun' and the Five-Book Design of Chaucer's 'Troilus'

Published
Chaucer Review 16 (1981): 129-70.

Description
Numerology is an aesthetic basis for TC. The architectural metaphor of Geoffrey of Vinsauf and Euclid's theorem on proportion in triangles can be used to demostrate proportions (involving line numbers) in TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.