"Troilus and Criseyde" and the "Parfit Blisse of Love."

Author / Editor
Fryer-Bovair, Simone.

Title
"Troilus and Criseyde" and the "Parfit Blisse of Love."

Published
Critical Survey 30.2 (2018): 51-73.

Description
Argues that Chaucer perceives a tension in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" regarding the role of romantic love in the relation of this world to the divine. Chaucer envisages a version of romantic love that is a bridge between this world and the divine.

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