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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Name: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Author: Helen Ruth Andretta
ISBN: 9780820433615

by Helen Ruth Andretta

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Overview

Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde invites philosophical speculation because of its Boethian and nominalist elements. This study comprehensively reviews Ockhamism and its possible influence on Chaucer in his version of the Troy story. A close analysis of the anachronistic characterizations of Troilus, Criseyde, and Pandarus and of the images, words and discourse of the poem leads to the conclusion that Chaucer was a traditional scholastic thinker, thereby making the poem an artistic negative response to the skeptical philosophy of his time.