What Makes a Man? Troilus, Hector, and the Masculinities of Courtly Love
- Author / Editor
- Marzec, Marcia Smith.
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.