God-Denying Fools and the Medieval 'Religion of Love'
- Author / Editor
- Kolve, V. A.
God-Denying Fools and the Medieval 'Religion of Love'
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997): 3-59.
- Description
- Documents the pictorial (24 b&w illus.) and intellectual traditions of the "fool...who says in his heart, There is no God," using the traditions as backdrop for analyzing "Folie de Tristan" and TC. In his love of Criseyde, Troilus is similar to the God-denying fool. In the tensions between Troilus's apotheosis and the Palinode of TC, Chaucer explores the limits of paganism and courtly passion, both of which lack Christian deity.
- Alternative Title
- The Presidential Address, the New Chaucer Society, Tenth International Congress, 26-29 July 1996, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.