SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde

»Troilus and Criseyde is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy. It was written in rime royale and probably completed during the mid-1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet's finest work. As a finished long poem it is more self-contained than the better known but ultimately unfinished The Canterbury Tales. This poem is often considered the source of the phrase: "all good things must come to an end" (3.615).« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Medieval History: 14^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Baechle, Sarah. Father Chaucer and the Apologists: Cecily Chaumpaigne and 700 Years of Rape Culture. University Park 2025.

[Info] Dinshaw, Carolyn. »Rivalry, rape, and manhood. Gower and Chaucer.« Violence against women in medieval texts. Edited by Anna Roberts. Gainesville 1998: 137-160.

[Info] Gibson, Angela L. Fictions of Abduction in the Auchinleck Manuscript, the 'Pearl' Poet, Chaucer, and Malory. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Rochester, 2008.

[Info] Jost, Jean E. »Intersecting the Ideal and the Real, Chivalry and Rape, Respect and Dishonor: The Problematics of Sexual Relationships in Troilus and Criseyde, Athelston, and Sir Tristrem.« Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropological Theme. Edited by Albrecht Classen. Berlin 2008: 599-632.

[Info] Powrie, Sarah. »Criseyde, Consent, and the #MeToo Reader.« New Chaucer Studies 2 (2021): 18-33.

[Info] Robertson, Elizabeth. »Public bodies and psychic domains. Rape and female subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.« Representing rape in medieval and early modern literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson et al. New York 2001: 281-310.

[Info] Rushton, Cory J. »The Awful Passion of Pandarus.« Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain. Edited by Amanda Hopkins et al. Cambridge 2014: 147-160.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Adams, Barbara. »Philomela's Tapestry, Criseyde's Text: Ovidian Myths of Rape and Transformation in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.« 27^th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1992.

[Info] Linnehan, MaryEllen. »Philomela as Crisis: A Cognitive Literary Approach to Trauma and Intertextuality in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.« 31^st International Medieval Congress. Leeds 2024.