Cultural interaction is possible wherever people live. Due to various reasons such as trade, migration and war, interaction among people became inevitable long before communities had begun to live as a nation under one ag in a certain land. Thus, cultural transactions could be seen even before colonialism initiated by the powerful nations in purpose of the development of their own states. In the 20th-century, colonial and post-colonial studies have steered researchers towards the notion of transculturalism. Transcultural studies elucidate that culture is established with the past and present, and that cultures, which interact with each other one way or another, contribute to the construction of the present culture. In view of the existence of interaction among communities in every period, transcultural studies is applicable to medieval studies, and the traces of cross-cultural transactions can be detected in many medieval literary works by means of intertextuality. In this article, Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, a fourteenth-century text about a love story that is assumed to take place in the twelfth century B.C. during the Trojan War, will be analysed within the framework of transculturalism
