The Lady in the Tower: Medieval Courtesy Literature for Women

Author / Editor
Bornstein, Diane.

Title
The Lady in the Tower: Medieval Courtesy Literature for Women

Published
Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1983

Description
Discusses church treatises, didactic works, and books of advice to daughters, or of clerical instruction to women, and mirrors for princesses, to reveal medieval images of women: the virgin, the coquette, the wife and mother, the ruler, the worker.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.