Secularizing the Word: Conversion Models in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Bankert, Dabney Anderson.
Secularizing the Word: Conversion Models in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Published
- Chaucer Review 37: 196-218, 2003.
- Description
- Conversions in TC are modeled ironically on those of St. Paul and St. Augustine. Like Paul, Troilus cannot escape his fate; he can only accept and serve. Like Augustine, Criseyde vainly tries to master the narrative that is out of her control.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.