Dictators of Venus: Clerical Love Letters and Female Subjection in 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Rota Veneris'

Author / Editor
Newman Jonathan M.

Title
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