On Affliction and Reading, Weeping and Argument: Chaucer's Lachrymose Troilus in Context

Author / Editor
Carruthers, Mary (J.)

Title
On Affliction and Reading, Weeping and Argument: Chaucer's Lachrymose Troilus in Context

Published
Representations 93 (2006): 1-21.

Description
Carruthers reevaluates Troilus's weeping and lamentation in Book 4 of TC in the context of monastic tradition, including the works of Peter of Celle and Galen, that sees links "among perception, sensation, and rational process."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.