The Astronomical Dating of Chaucer's "Troilus."
- Author / Editor
- O'Connor, John J.
The Astronomical Dating of Chaucer's "Troilus."
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 55 (1956): 556-62.
- Description
- Argues that the astronomical conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in TC 3.624-25 does not allude to a specific event in 1385 (by which the central book of the poem has been dated) but to a more "general tradition" of foreboding, thematically appropriate to the impending fall of Troy. Suggests that it is "clear that Book III could have been written in, say, 1380 or even earlier."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde