Waiting for the Verb : Translating Desire and Faction in Medieval Literature

Author / Editor
Hayton, Heather Richardson.

Title
Waiting for the Verb : Translating Desire and Faction in Medieval Literature

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 1393A, 2000.

Description
Analyzes two works each from late-thirteenth-century Florence and late-fourteenth-century England in relation to the "Roman de la rose" as expressions of political factionalism in the vocabulary of desire. Concludes that "a loyal citizen is still a loyal citizen even if the expression of that loyalty changes." Treats TC and Usk's Testament of Love.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.