Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie and the compositional practices of the roman antique
- 2 Plaits, debates, and judgments in the Roman de Thèbes, the Roman de Troie and the Roman d'Eneas
- 3 The poetics of fine amor in the French romans antiques
- 4 From history into fiction: Boccaccio's Filostrato and the question of foolish love
- 5 Boccaccio's Teseida and the triumph of Aristotelian virtue
- 6 Saving the poetry: authors, translators, texts, and readers in Chaucer's Book of Troilus and Criseyde
- 7 The consolation of Stoic virtue: Chaucer's Knight's Tale and the tradition of the roman antique
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie and the compositional practices of the roman antique
- 2 Plaits, debates, and judgments in the Roman de Thèbes, the Roman de Troie and the Roman d'Eneas
- 3 The poetics of fine amor in the French romans antiques
- 4 From history into fiction: Boccaccio's Filostrato and the question of foolish love
- 5 Boccaccio's Teseida and the triumph of Aristotelian virtue
- 6 Saving the poetry: authors, translators, texts, and readers in Chaucer's Book of Troilus and Criseyde
- 7 The consolation of Stoic virtue: Chaucer's Knight's Tale and the tradition of the roman antique
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Chaucer and the Tradition of the Roman Antique , pp. i - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992