The Value of 'Eschaunge': Ransom and Substitution in Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Murray, Molly.
The Value of 'Eschaunge': Ransom and Substitution in Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- ELH 69 : 335-58, 2002.
- Description
- The medieval chivalric practice of ransom illuminates the preoccupation with double sense, surrogacy, and substitutions in TC. Working with the poem's depiction of character, its narrative structure, and its insistently metaphoric language, the resonances of ransom suggest that value and meaning are generated, rather than threatened, by separation and exchange.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.