She, This in Blak: Vision, Truth, and Will in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde"

Description: Argues that TC is largely concerned with "certitude and volition as they pertain to human perception and judgment" and as they relate to late medieval philosophical discussions of divine omnipotence and divine self-limitation. Troilus, Pandarus, and Criseyde represent "disparate accounts of the perceiving soul and differing philosophies of truth that exist in counterpoint" - Troilus as traditional perspectivism, Pandarus as self-interested valuation, and Criseyde as a kind of voluntarism that views knowledge as limited and intention as important. Hill introduces the poem with a summary of fourteenth-century debates on epistemology, voluntarism, and the power of God.