Chaucer's Worthiest Knight: Heroic Identity in "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Hanna, Natalie.

Title
Chaucer's Worthiest Knight: Heroic Identity in "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Roman Bleier, Brian Coleman, and Clare Fletcher, eds. Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 229-49.

Description
Questions how and to what extent recurrent mention of Hector in TC helps to characterize Troilus as a knight. Instances and collocations of “knight,” “worthy,” related terms, and references to Hector, generally not found in Chaucer's source text, Boccaccio's "Filostrato," help to establish Troilus's "archetypal" knightly virtues.

Alternative Title
Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Language and Word Studies
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations