Dictators of Venus: Clerical Love Letters and Female Subjection in 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Rota Veneris'
- Author / Editor
- Newman Jonathan M.
Dictators of Venus: Clerical Love Letters and Female Subjection in 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Rota Veneris'
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 36 (2014): 103-38.
- Description
- Explores the Ovidian "erotodidactic" combination of "ars amandi" and "ars dictandi" in TC, describing the similar "rhetorical view of love" in the "Rota Veneris" of Boncompagno de Signa. Focuses on Pandarus, letter-writing, and the manipulative "eros of writing."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations