'Peyntyng with Greet Cost': Virginia as Image in the 'Physician's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Collette, Carolyn P.
'Peyntyng with Greet Cost': Virginia as Image in the 'Physician's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Yearbook 2 (1995): 49-62.
- Description
- Compares the description of Virginia in PhyT with Wycliffite or Lollard materials to argue that Virginia is cast as a perfect image rather than a false one--a reflection of contemporary concern with images, their uses, and their abuses.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale.