The Place of Chivalry in the New Trojan Court: Gawain, Troilus, and Richard II

Author / Editor
Federico, Sylvia.

Title
The Place of Chivalry in the New Trojan Court: Gawain, Troilus, and Richard II

Published
Laura L. Howes, ed. Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), pp. 171-79.

Description
Federico explores how "Ricardian court culture haunts the chivalric spaces inhabited and visited by" Chaucer's TC and by Gawain in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Parallels between the "moral lapses" of Richard II and those of the two protagonists are cast into relief by the ideal of Troy.

Alternative Title
Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde