The Ends of Love: (Meta)physical Desire in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Fumo, Jamie C.

Title
The Ends of Love: (Meta)physical Desire in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Robert Epstein and William Robins, eds. Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming (Buffalo, N. Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. 68-90.

Description
Fumo reads Criseyde as someone "who does not believe in love" and perhaps "does not believe at all," a representation of fourteenth-century epistemological concerns "reanimated in the context of a Petrarchan psychology of enamourment." Criseyde's comments on love, in contrast to Troilus's, demonstrate that her view is essentially skeptical, perhaps atheistic.

Alternative Title
Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.