1st Edition

She, this in Blak Vision, Truth, and Will in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Ciseyde

By Thomas Hill Copyright 2006
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

"She, This in Blak" takes a fresh look at Chaucer's great Trojan romance, Troilus and Criseyde, in light of recent scholarship on late scholastic discourses on representation and causality as they pertain to human perception and judgment. This study also contributes to a growing literature on the impact of scholastic psychological theory upon contemporary cultural forms by examining the way in... Read more

Acknowledgments



I. Introduction and Background



Perspectiva



Problems of Representation and Necessity



Fourteenth-century Responses



The Philosophical Setting of the Narrative



II. Troilus



III. Pandarus



IV. Criseyde



V. The Epilogue



Notes



Bibliography



Index

Biography

T.E. Hill is a librarian and a medievalist. He holds a Ph.D from Columbia University in English Literature, with a specialization in Medieval English and Continental literature. His particular interests focus on relations between medieval narrative, philosophy, and psychology.