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Tale of Sir Thopas , 40 –50;

and archetypal plot, 88 ;

and genre of popular romance, 40 ;

Lucifer and Olifaunt, 46 –47;

and minstrel as figure of poet, 42 –43, 44 ;

and moral vision of Comedy , 47 ;

as parody of Comedy , 45 –49;

and poetic autobiography, 41 ;

Spenser's appropriation of, in Faerie Queene , 45 , 45 n;

as urtext of "secular scripture," 44 .

See also Thopas.

Tale-telling game:

as model for reader, 120

Tambling, Jeremy, 65 n, 75 n;

on Dante's poetics, 67 , 67 n;

on Dante's sense of history, 141 n;

on Purgatorio , 76

Taylor, Karla, 3 , 3 n;

on recantation in Troilus and Criseyde , 39 n

Tears, 197 ;

frate Alberigo's frozen, 210 –11;

as sign of tragedy and hope, 196

Tertullian, 115 n, 124

Textor. See Weavers

Theater:

of Canterbury Tales , characterized, 120 ;

ideas about, in Miller's and Knight's Tales, 121 , 128 –32;

medieval, characterized, 8 , 116 n;

medieval ideas about classical, 108 , 134 .

See also Character; Epic theater; Mystery plays

Theatricality:

thematized in Canterbury Tales , 116 , 120

Theodicy. See Providence

Theseus, 126 –28, 198 –99;

amphitheater of, 121 ;

Boethian oration of, 199 ;

political theater of, 126 –27.

See also Knight; Knight's Tale

Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 165 –66, 166 n

Thopas:

like Dantean Pilgrim, 48 ;

encounter of, with giant Olifaunt discussed, 45 –48;

and hero as bourgeois knight, 49 ;

like Perceval of Galles, 48 –49;

and St. Francis of Assisi, 50 .

See also Tale of Sir Thopas

Todorov, Tzvetan:

on the fantastic and allegory, 73 –74, 74 n

Towneley Cycle, 133 , 133 n

Tragedy, 25 , 144 ;

and Aeneid , 191 ;

and ambivalence, 201 ;

and death as remedy, 166 ;

discussed by Monk, 160 –61;

Inferno as, 161 , 161 n;

Monk's definition of, 145 ;

paradox of, and frate Alberigo, 211 ;

and Troilus and Criseyde , 25 .

See also Comedy; History; Inferno ; Monk's Tale; Pier della Vigna; Seneca

Transition from oral to literate culture:

Comedy mainly addressed to reader, 108 ;

in fourteenth-century Europe, 107 –108;

Homer "between two worlds," 106 –107;

poet of Canterbury Tales as minstrel and "translateur," 108

Translatio. See Metaphor

Tree:

Chauntecleer's flight to, 93 ;

etymologically related to "bemes," 97 ;

as gallows, 97 , 149 ;

of Life replaces crucifix, 97 ;

in Merchant's Tale, 256 –57, 261 –62, 264

Trinkaus, Charles:

on Petrarch's "double consciousness," 233 , 233 n

Tripet, Arnaud, 225 n, 237 n

Troilus and Criseyde , 123 n;

and Boccaccio's antiquarian poetics, 39 ;

echoes of Comedy in, 3 ;

envoy possibly from Filocolo , 25 ;

envoy quoted, 24 ;

in line of epic, 25 , 38 –39;

"Lollius" as source of, 25 ;

Man of Law's "Brixseyde" and, 38 ;

as modeled on Aeneid , 25 ;

and Ovidian mode, 39 ;

predates conversion to Dantean poetic, 38 –39;

recantation in, 39 , 39 n;

as tragedy, 38 , 39

Troping:

of Merchant's wife, 16 ;

Pretrarchan idealization and, 230 , 234 ;

as warding off death, 15 .

See also Allegory; Language; Literal meaning; Metaphor

Trovato, Mario, 251 n

Turner, Victor and Edith:

on liminality and pilgrimage community, 31 , 31 n

"Two beatitudes" question:

and Albert the Great and Aquinas, 251 ;

discussed in De Monarchia and Convivio , 251 ;

and dual paradise of Comedy , 251 ;

Kantorowicz on Dante's view of, 251 n;

worries January, 251