"Ther was som epistel hem bitwene": Love Letters and Love Lyrics in "Troilus and Criseyde," and "The Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Niebrzydowski, Sue.
"Ther was som epistel hem bitwene": Love Letters and Love Lyrics in "Troilus and Criseyde," and "The Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 52–69.
- Description
- Focuses on Troilus's love letters in TC, and on Absolon''sin MilT and Damyan's in MerT, reading them in light of courtly conventions and placing them "in dialogue with the impact of love missives as recorded in manuscripts that circulated in the households of the wealthy.": In Chaucer, such letters effect "no lasting relationship."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Miller and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale