Eye Beams and Boethian Sufficiency in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Rude, Sarah B.
Eye Beams and Boethian Sufficiency in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Mediaevalia 40 (2019): 169-86.
- Description
- Argues that TC "dramatizes" the relations among vision, imagination, reason, and intellect found in Bo, tracing the effects of the lovers' "faulty reasoning" in failing to progress from sight-based earthly pleasure to eternal good, emphasized in Criseyde's use of the Boethian term "suffisaunce" (III.1309) to proclaim her love in the consummation scene.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Boece
Language and Word Studies