'Priest' and 'Pope,' 'Sire and Madame': Anachronistic Diction and Social Conflict in Chaucer's Troilus
- Author / Editor
- Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
'Priest' and 'Pope,' 'Sire and Madame': Anachronistic Diction and Social Conflict in Chaucer's Troilus
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23: 181-224, 2001.
- Description
- Various "titles, epithets, and images" in TC reflect Chaucer's "covert engagement" with political and religious contention. Pandarus and the narrator adopt priestly roles, Troilus is like an anti-Lollard zealot, and forms of address such as "madame" and "sire" carry political overtones in TC and CT. In TC, the title "servant of servants" engages polemics of the Great Schism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Language and Word Studies.