Why is Dona Endrina a Widow? : Traditional Culture and Textuality in the 'Libro de Buen Amor'

Author / Editor
Vasvari, Louise.

Title
Why is Dona Endrina a Widow? : Traditional Culture and Textuality in the 'Libro de Buen Amor'

Published
Louise Mirrer, ed. Upon My Husband's Death: Widows in Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1992), pp. 259-87.

Description
Acknowledges the Wife of Bath and Criseyde as different kinds of widows in the tradition of literary widowhood that underlies the Dona Endrina episode in Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor.

Contributor
Mirrer, Louise, ed.

Alternative Title
Upon My Husband's Death: Widows in Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Troilus and Criseyde.