'As She That': Syntactical Ambiguity in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Description: "As (s)he that" appears most frequently--twenty-five of forty-three occurrences throughout Chaucer's work--in TC, with twenty of these instances clustered in TC 4 and 5. Although in some of these passages the phrase clearly means "for" or "because," it usually signals ambiguity, mirroring the doubleness and doubt of this portion of the narrative and undermining the reader's ability to interpret characters' behavior.