The Conclusion of Chaucer's 'Legend of Lucrece': Robert Holcot and the Great Faith of Women
- Author / Editor
- Waller, Martha S.
The Conclusion of Chaucer's 'Legend of Lucrece': Robert Holcot and the Great Faith of Women
- Published
- Chaucer Newsletter 2.1 (1980): 10-12.
- Description
- Holcot is a source for the conclusion of "Lucrece": his "In Librum Sapientie" includes (1) the statement, not in the Gospels, that Christ found greater faith in women than in men, and (2) a catalogue of pagan good women including Lucretia and others in LGW.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.