Forming Pity: Responses to Suffering in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Hines, Jessica.

Title
Forming Pity: Responses to Suffering in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Religion & Literature 54 (2022): 49-71.

Description
Presents the role of pity as an "essential virtue" that does not negate suffering in TC; claims that Chaucer shifts language as a way to understand the "complex social and subjective position of pity" in TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde