The Poetics of Religious Conversion in Medieval English Literature

Author / Editor
Bankert, Dabney Anderson.

Title
The Poetics of Religious Conversion in Medieval English Literature

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 4733A.

Description
Considers biblical, historical, traditional, and hagiographical accounts of conversion, exploring Chaucer's appropriation of them to psychologize courtly love or "'fin'amors' as a surrogate religion" in TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.