Beauty and the Beast: Catalogues of Good Women from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Author / Editor
McLeod, Glenda Kaye.

Title
Beauty and the Beast: Catalogues of Good Women from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 501A

Description
The tradition of listing good women, dissociating them from their backgrounds, reveals varying attitudes toward woman's nature and rhetorical shifts from florilegia to debates; LGW is treated.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.