The Second Nature: 'Habitus' as Ideology in the 'Ars Amatoria and 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Fewer, Colin.

Title
The Second Nature: 'Habitus' as Ideology in the 'Ars Amatoria and 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Exemplaria 20 (2008): 314-39.

Description
In "Ars Amatoria" and "Remedia Amoris," Ovid provides "habits of thought" that give medieval thinkers a vocabulary to describe "the operations of what we would today call ideology," or the conforming of the self to conceive social institutions as realities. Pandarus in TC makes this Ovidian ideological operation especially clear.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations