Chivalry, Power, and Justice in Three Medieval Romances
- Author / Editor
- Kobayashi, Yoshiko.
Chivalry, Power, and Justice in Three Medieval Romances
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 3144A, 1997.
- Description
- Like Gower in "Confessio Amantis," Chaucer in TC adapts two strategies from Benot de Sainte-Maure's "Roman de Troie" to criticize chivalry: indicating how chivalry oppresses women and revealing the incompatibility of knightly conduct and good government.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.