Discursive Violence: Women with Authority in Old English, Middle English, Middle High German, and Early New High German Texts
- Author / Editor
- Morrison, Susan Signe.
Discursive Violence: Women with Authority in Old English, Middle English, Middle High German, and Early New High German Texts
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 3275A-76A.
- Description
- With few exceptions, medieval German and English texts depict female authority figures as truth-tellers. Female saints reveal the falseness of male antagonists, but queens lose their power to men who lie, act violently, and rule efficiently. CT characters generally follow this pattern, except for Griselda and the Wife of Bath. Also considers TC and LGW.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Legend of Good Women.