Love Before Troilus
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Helen.
Love Before Troilus
- Published
- Helen Cooney, ed. Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 25-43.
- Description
- Before TC and KnT, most romances in England were Anglo-Norman and largely uninfluenced by the conventions of courtly love and the Petrarchan tradition. The reputation of Chaucer's works overshadows that of these other works and their more practical ethos of love.
- Alternative Title
- Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Knight and His Tale.