Women as Exempla in Fifteenth-Century Verse of the Chaucerian Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Cowen, Janet (M.)
Women as Exempla in Fifteenth-Century Verse of the Chaucerian Tradition
- Published
- Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen, eds. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. King's College London Medieval Studies, no. 5 (London: King's College Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991), pp. 51-65.
- Description
- Discusses exemplary use of Medea in classical and medieval traditions, suggesting connections with Boccaccio's De claris mulieribus and Christine de Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies. Also notes comparisons among LGW, Lydgate's versions of the tale, Henryson's Letter of Cupid, and the latter's tale of Jereslaus's wife.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.