Title: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
First published: 1997
Description: 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.
Subjects: Princes in literature, Philosophy, Medieval, in literature, Troilus (Legendary character) in literature, Literature and the war, Philosophy, Influence, Trojan War, Cressida (Fictitious character), In literature, Women in literature, Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, William, of ockham, approximately 1285-approximately 1349, Philosophy in literature, Trojan war, literature and the war
Places: Troy (Extinct city)
People: Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400), William of Ockham (ca. 1285-ca. 1349)
LC classification: PR1896 .A53 1997