When 'Remedia Amoris' Fails: Chaucer's Literary-Medical Exploration of Determinism, Materialism, and Free Will in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Palmer, James M.
When 'Remedia Amoris' Fails: Chaucer's Literary-Medical Exploration of Determinism, Materialism, and Free Will in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Marcelline Block and Angela Laflen, eds. Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 292-312.
- Description
- Investigates in TC Pandarus's attempts to cure Troilus's lovesickness, physically and psychologically. Pandarus's failure to effect a cure indicates that Chaucer rejects determinism and endorses free will, showing that Christian morals are incompatible with materialist cures for lovesickness.
- Contributor
- Block, Marcelline, ed.
- Laflen, Angela, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.