Reading about Lancelot in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde

Troilus & Criseyde 3

This book is the central one of Troilus and Criseyde’s five books, with the sexual union of Troilus with Criseyde forming the climax and turning-point of the entire plot-structure, condensed at the start of the work by Chaucer in the words “fro woe to wele and after out of joie.”

Misconceptions about Beast Fables and Beast Tales, and the Role of the Fox in All of It

Medieval Fables

Misconceptions about Beast Fables and Beast Tales, and the Role of the Fox in All of It Schutter, Lilian Master Thesis, Faculteit der Letteren Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (2008) Abstract In this dissertation, the genres of the beast fable and beast tale will be looked at more closely, as well as the role that the fox plays in these […]

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