Myth and the Present : Chaucer's Troilus as a Mirror for Ricardian England
- Author / Editor
- Urban, Malte.
Myth and the Present : Chaucer's Troilus as a Mirror for Ricardian England
- Published
- Thomas Honegger, ed. Riddles, Knights and Cross-dressing Saints: Essays on Medieval English Language and Literature (Bern: Lang, 2004), pp. 33-54.
- Description
- Presenting Troy in TC as the mirror image of London in the 1380s, Chaucer engages conflicting notions of history and historiography. In particular, his depiction of the Trojan parliament is a warning to his contemporaries. Chaucer embraces wholeheartedly neither Christian teleology nor pagan cyclicity.
- Alternative Title
- Riddles, Knights and Cross-dressing Saints: Essays on Medieval English Language and Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.