The Contract of Love-Service: Lancelot and Troilus
- Author / Editor
- Stokes, Myra.
The Contract of Love-Service: Lancelot and Troilus
- Published
- Litteraria Pragensia 9.18 : 62-83, 1999.
- Description
- Stokes compares the pledges of love-troth in the "Prose Lancelot" and TC, suggesting that they reflect a "specific kind of romantic relationship," neither marital nor illicit nor clandestine, but "solemn and binding" and based on the man's service to the woman. The scene in Lancelot may be a source of the exchange of vows in TC 3.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations