Praying with Boethius in "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Murton, Megan.

Title
Praying with Boethius in "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Chaucer Review 49.3 (2015): 294-319.

Description
Argues that Chaucer's interpretation of Boethius, as shown in two key passages in TC, his translation of Bo, and a significant Bo manuscript, "enables him to present Troilus as a genuinely Boethian hero who channels philosophical insight into religious devotion."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Boece
Manuscripts and Textual Studies