'Figmenta vs Veritas': Dame Alice and the Medieval Literary Depiction of Women by Women
- Author / Editor
- Wilson, Katharina M.
'Figmenta vs Veritas': Dame Alice and the Medieval Literary Depiction of Women by Women
- Published
- Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 4 (1985): 17-32.
- Description
- Examination of the Wife of Bath's hypothesis that if women wrote stories literature would be misandric; yet men are the ones who promote the one-sided ideal of feminine excellence. Hrotsvita of Gandersheim and Christine de Pizan show women who are catalysts of salvation for their men.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.