Love and Disease in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Gilles, Sealy.
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.