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Criseydanconversations Works Works Examined Aers, David. “Masculine Identity in the Courtly Community.” Community, Gender, and Individual Identity: English Writing, 1360-1430. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. Anderson, J.J. "Criseyde's Assured Manner." Notes and Queries 236 (1991): 160-61. Andretti, Helen R. "Spirit, Psyche, and Self in Troilus and Criseyde." Proceedings: Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature (no.79). Joan F. Hallisey and Mary-Anne Vetterling, eds. Weston, Mass.: Regis College, 1996. 1-7. Antonelli, Roberto. "The Birth of Criseyde-An Exemplary Triangle: 'Classical' Troilus and the Question of Love at the Anglo-Norman Court." The European Tragedy of the Troilus. Piero Boitani, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. 21-48. apRoberts, Robert P. “A Contribution to the Thirteenth Labour: Purging the Troilus of Incest.” Essays on English and American Literature and a Sheaf of Poems. J. Bakker, J.A. Verleun, and J. v.d. 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