'O swete harm so queynte': Loving Pagan Antiquity in 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Coot, Alexander.
'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