Boethian Epistemology and Chaucer's 'Troilus' in the Light of Fourteenth-Century Thought
- Author / Editor
- Eldredge, Laurence.
Boethian Epistemology and Chaucer's 'Troilus' in the Light of Fourteenth-Century Thought
- Published
- Mediaevalia 2 (1976): 50-75.
- Description
- The limited success of Troilus' efforts to know the nature of love reflects a state of epistemology similar to certain skeptical trends in universities. A counterpoint to the skepticism and to Troilus' determinism leads, through a Boethian epistemology, to the Epilogue where the reality of moral value is affirmed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.