'Evere an Hundred Goode ageyn Oon Badde': Catalogues of Good Women in Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- McMillan, Ann Hunter.
'Evere an Hundred Goode ageyn Oon Badde': Catalogues of Good Women in Medieval Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1980): 5437A.
- Description
- The labels "antifeminism" and "courtly love" misrepresent the medieval literary treatment of women. Three types--the chaste wife, the "manly" virgin, and the martyr of love--dominate the catalogues through the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer drew mainly upon the idea of love's martyrs from Ovid and Virgil, and the question of what makes a good woman becomes for him an aspect of the larger conflicts between men and women and between authority and experience. In LGW and CT the catalogues reveal more about their tellers than about women. Chaucer's development of characterization reaches its culmination in Dorigen and the Wife of Bath.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.