Chaucer's Troilus and Self-Renunciation in Love
- Author / Editor
- Baron, F. Xavier.
Chaucer's Troilus and Self-Renunciation in Love
- Published
- Papers on Language and Literature 10 (1974): 5-14.
- Description
- Considers Troilus's "altruistic love" of Criseyde to be one of the "outstanding examples in late medieval romance" of "self-abnegating love," i.e., "placing another's good before one's own." Troilus's hesitancy to act is a manifestation of this idealized self-renunciation, "carefully bound up with his fatalism and his vanity."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde