The Story of Troilus

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University of Toronto Press, 1978 M01 1 - 383 pages

Originally published by J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1934.

In this volume Gordon presents the four great medieval versions of the love of Troilus and Criseida: Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, written in approximately 1160 and the earliest surviving version of the story; Giovanni Boccaccio's It Filostrato (c 1338), which drew on Benoît's tale for one of its two main sources; Georffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde c 1385), for centuries considered his best work; and Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid (c 1490), which functions as a continuation of the story Chaucer tells.

 

Contents

FRANKISH GAUL page I
GOTHIA AND ROMANIA 25
THE WORK OF GREGORY OF TOURS IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN RESEARCH 49
7
FREDEGAR AND THE HISTORY OF FRANCE 71
29
ARCHBISHOP HINCMAR AND THE AUTHOR SHIP OF LEX SALICA 95
53
THE BLOODFEUD OF THE FRANKS 121
79
THE LONGHAIRED KINGS 148
106
Pugnator egregius 163
121
Canto I
xix
Canto II
xix
Canto IV
xix
Canto VII
xix
Canto VIII
xix
Book I
xix
Book II
xix
Book III
xix

Gregorys kings 185
143
Fredegars kings 206
164
The rois fainéants 231
189
INTRODUCTION
ix
Proem
xix
39
213
92
222
131
229
160
235
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Robert Kay Gordon was an English scholar of medieval and early modern English literature and administrator at the University of Alberta in Canada.

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