http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/courtly-love Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:41:58 -0400 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:41:58 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1852/courtly-love-in-chaucer-characters-as-commentary-in-the-franklins-tale-troilus-and-criseyde-and-parliament-of-fowls By Noelle E. Equi - Through major works including “The Franklin’s Tale,” Troilus and Criseyde, and “Parliament of Fowls,” Chaucer illuminates the complexity of the popular writing trope of courtly love. His accounts of courtly love border on satire and criticism, both praising the institution of marriage as the protagonist and the unorthodox courtly love dynamic as the villain (as seen in “The Franklin’s Tale) and highlighting the manufactured, tenuous nature of the dynamic (as seen in Troilus and Criseyde and “Parliament of Fowls”). In all, the three works considered... Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:46 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1852/courtly-love-in-chaucer-characters-as-commentary-in-the-franklins-tale-troilus-and-criseyde-and-parliament-of-fowls