Love and Disease in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Gilles, Sealy.

Title
Love and Disease in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25: 157-97, 2003.

Description
Reads the depiction of Troilus's love-sickness against "new theories of contagion" that resulted from the devastations of the plague. Criseyde internalizes the anti-feminist "logic of disease" and names herself the "infective other." Troilus's "love-sickness mimics the progress of a viral infection" and leads--in his "apotheosis"--to a cure only when his body leaves the "earthbound cycle of contagion."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.