1st Edition
She, this in Blak Vision, Truth, and Will in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Ciseyde
"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 which late medieval accounts of perception and cognition can illuminate the construction of the poem's subjects, including one of the most compelling and controversial figures in medieval literature, Chaucer's Criseyde. By examining Chaucer's depiction of Troilus, Pandarus, and Criseyde within this contemporary cultural context, "She, This in Blak" offers a better grounded and more historically illuminating view of the poem than is provided by psychological readings based on modern constructions of intentionality.
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.
