'O swete harm so queynte': Loving Pagan Antiquity in 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Coot, Alexander.

Title
'O swete harm so queynte': Loving Pagan Antiquity in 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Knight's Tale'

Published
English Studies 91 (2010): 26-41.

Description
In TC and KnT, Chaucer "revises Augustinian and Boethian formulations of "contemptus mundi," pointing out that any ethical system which seeks to address the topic of earthly desires must also address the human subject's endless appetite for desire as such." The article also deals with risqué aspects of medieval interest in pagan lore.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations