"Wereyed on every side": Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" and the Logic of Siege Warfare.

Author / Editor
Davies, Daniel.

Title
"Wereyed on every side": Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" and the Logic of Siege Warfare.

Published
New Medieval Literatures 20 (2020): 74-106.

Description
Identifies connections among "war, narrative, and literary technique" in TC to show "how Chaucer constructs . . . siege as a dynamic space in which to imagine the forces that shape and determine human behaviour." Chaucer "reconfigures the idea of a military and political siege," exploring how Troilus and Criseyde are entrapped, and depicting how Pandarus engineers their relationship using methods that mirror "the strategies deployed in siege warfare."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde