Rejecting Natural Law and Society's Dissolution in Chaucer's Troilus

Author / Editor
Currie, Joy M.

Title
Rejecting Natural Law and Society's Dissolution in Chaucer's Troilus

Published
Mediaevalia 24 (2003): 299-324.

Description
Currie explores the hypocrisy and factionalism that underlie the characters' ostensible concerns with natural law and the common good in TC, arguing that Chaucer exposes the negative consequences (individual and social) of breaches of natural law. Chaucer's Troy reflects the London of his day.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.