The Problem of the Premodern.

Author / Editor
Crocker, Holly A.

Title
The Problem of the Premodern.

Published
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 16, no. 1 (2016): 146-52.

Description
Reconsiders the periodizations that separate medieval and early modern studies, focusing on "'premodern humanism' as a critical problem" and the "anthropocentric fantasy" of the "nonhuman–human divide." Includes comments on the privileging of masculine identity in TC in comparison with Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion