Chaucer's Man of Sorrows: Secular Images of Pity in the 'Book of the Duchess,' the 'Squire's Tale,' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Hardman, Phillipa.
Chaucer's Man of Sorrows: Secular Images of Pity in the 'Book of the Duchess,' the 'Squire's Tale,' and 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 93 (1994): 204-27.
- Description
- The portrait of the Man in Black of BD reflects a traditional "imago pietatis," the Man of Sorrows. So, to a lesser degree, do the Falcon of SqT and Criseyde.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Squire and His Tale.