Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus
- Author / Editor
- Mieszkowski, Gretchen.
Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Physical Description
- x, 218 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Western tradition bifurcates the go-between into two separate traditions: the first, working for idealized love; the second, working for lustful sexual conquest. Mieszkowski surveys go-between figures in medieval tradition and discusses how Pandarus belongs to both traditions at once. These functions collide most spectacularly in the consummation scene in Book 3 of TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.