Middle AgesDante and Chaucer

Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde

A love story set in besieged Troy: trust, fortune and betrayal in Chaucer's longest finished poem.

✎ Being written
Volume
19 of the 1990 set
Author
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400)
Work
Troilus and Criseyde c. 1385

Ideas: Friendship and love Fate and free will Tragedy and suffering

Read it free: search Project Gutenberg for public-domain editions.

A note for parents: A story of grown-up romance; the lesson keeps to the plot and the ideas about fortune.

Being written

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Builds on

Nothing before it: a good place to start.

Leads to

This is one of the top rungs of The Middle Ages.

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