The Domestic Background of "Troilus and Criseyde."

Description: Reconstructs the layout and functions of the rooms and gardens of the households in TC, drawing on details in the poem and evidence from fourteenth-century English architecture, with connections to correlative structures and scenes elsewhere in Chaucer's works. Attends closely to arrangements in Pandarus's house where Troilus and Criseyde consummate their love, and to the diction of architecture and domestic practice. Comments on the recurrent presence of household retainers in the poem.