Chaucer's Troilus
Subtitle: a study in courtly love
By: Thomas A. Kirby
Series: Louisiana State University studies -- no. 39; Louisiana State University studies -- no. 39.
Publisher: Peter Smith
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Gloucester, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Courtly love; Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey); Amour courtois
Other titles: Study in courty love
Notes: Originally published: University, La. : Louisiana State University Press, ©1940. (Louisiana State University studies ; no. 39).

"My purpose has been to make a study of the courtly love tradition and of Chaucer's Troilus in the light of that tradition, especially to investigate its relation to the Filostrato of Boccaccio and to determine the nature and the effect of the changes which the English poet saw fit to make"--Preface.

"Select bibliography": pages 326-331.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Internet Archive 2
Table of contents: title: An outline of the courtly love system: Ovid, The troubadours ; Chrétien de Troyes ; Andreas Capellanus ; Italy and Il dolce stil nuovo; title: Boccaccio: Courtly love in Il Filastrato; title: Troilus and Criseyde: Pandarus ; Criseyde ; Diomede ; Troilus; title: Appendix.