Blanche Fever: The Grene Sekeness

Author / Editor
Byrd, David G.

Title
Blanche Fever: The Grene Sekeness

Published
Ball State University Forum 19.3 (1978): 56-64.

Description
Standard modern studies of courtly love do not refer to a term used in French poetry, "blanche fever." A study of this sickness endured by the lovers in TC, "Confessio Amantis," "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale," and Caxton's "History of Jason" reveals its association with many significant courtly love characteristics.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Troilus and Criseyde.