Epic Lists: The Matter of Troy and the Catalogue Form in Middle English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Contzen, Eva von.
Epic Lists: The Matter of Troy and the Catalogue Form in Middle English Literature.
- Published
- Eva von Contzen and James Simpson, eds. Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 115-34.
- Description
- Uses Chaucer's list of poets of Troy in HF 1460ff. as a "vantage point" to demonstrate how epic catalogs in Middle English Troy narratives are "sites of scepticism towards established truths, questioning the Trojan War, the claims of epic, and poetry itself." Also considers these concerns in the "Seege or Batayle of Troye," the "Laud Troy Book," the "'Gest Hystoriale’ of the Destruction of Troy," and John Lydgate's "Troy Book."
- Alternative Title
- Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
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