Two Troy Books: The Political Classicism of Walsingham's 'Ditis ditatus' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Federico, Sylvia.

Title
Two Troy Books: The Political Classicism of Walsingham's 'Ditis ditatus' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35 (2013): 137-77.

Description
Treats TC and Thomas Walsingham's "Ditis ditatus" as the two major Troy narratives of late fourteenth-century England, considering the influences of Dictys and Dares (along with Boccaccio) on the two works, and focusing on their depictions of various secondary characters (Helen, Paris, Deiphebus, and Hector) as mirrors of late-medieval political events and conditions.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations