Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love
- Author / Editor
- Bloch, R. Howard.
Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love
- Published
- Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
- Physical Description
- ix, 298 pp.
- Description
- Explores the scriptural roots of medieval attitudes toward women, focusing on how various kinds of abstraction and aestheticizing led to fundamentally misogynistic contradictions. Examines French romances, lays, and lyrics for the ways they elevate women to debase them. A section on PhyT (pp. 101-12) argues that Chaucer's praise of Virginia assaults her in ways similar to Appius's lustful gaze.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Physician and His Tale.