'We Do Usen Here No Wommen for to Selle': Embodiment of Social Practices in 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Description: The two distinct "social spaces" within the poem--the city of Troy and the Greek camp--represent the varying attitudes of the characters inhabiting them, particularly their attitudes concerning women. When Criseyde is given over to Diomede, however, the "courtly" Trojans come to espouse the Greek tendency to view women as objects to be exchanged.