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This collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The contributions show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love and other emotions as a means of approaching the problem of tradition. As these texts reflect on their own traditionality, they highlight both the affective nature of temporality and the role of affect in scrutinising tradition itself. Focusing on a specific textual lineage that bridges the conventional period boundaries, the collection participates in an exchange between medievalists and early modernists that seeks to generate a dialogic encounter between the periods with the aim of further dismantling the rigid notions of chronology and periodisation that have kept medieval and early modern scholarship apart.

Love in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Geschichte --- Liebe --- Chaucer, Geoffrey. --- Shakespeare, William --- Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey) --- Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare, William) --- William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare, William) --- History of Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida (Shakespeare, William) --- Troilus & Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey) --- Pierpont Morgan Library (Chaucer, Geoffrey) --- Troilus and Cressida (Chaucer, Geoffrey) --- Chaucer. --- New Historicist paradigm. --- Shakespeare. --- Troilus and Criseyde. --- anticipatory emotion. --- authorial humility. --- early modern fiction. --- emotion. --- gendered female. --- hermeneutical acts. --- late medieval Troy tradition. --- literary combat. --- literary narratives. --- literary studies. --- medieval fiction. --- military combat. --- sententiousness. --- sexual frustration. --- temporality. --- tradition.