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.

Title
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.