What Makes a Man? Troilus, Hector, and the Masculinities of Courtly Love

Author / Editor
Marzec, Marcia Smith.

Title
What Makes a Man? Troilus, Hector, and the Masculinities of Courtly Love

Published
Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 58-72.

Description
Marzec surveys portrayals of Hector as a knightly paragon of prowess and virtue in sources and analogues of TC, arguing that Chaucer's Troilus is a distinctly "courtly" figure in contrast to his brother. The contrast critiques courtly love.

Alternative Title
Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

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