'Effigies Amicitiae...Veritas Inimicitae': Antifeminism in the Iconography of the Women-Headed Serpent in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Literature
- Author / Editor
- Flores, Nona C.
'Effigies Amicitiae...Veritas Inimicitae': Antifeminism in the Iconography of the Women-Headed Serpent in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Literature
- Published
- Nona C. Flores, ed. Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays (New York: Garland, 1996), pp. 167-95.
- Description
- Oblique mention of Chaucer's comparison of Fortune to the "Fradulent serpent" in MerT and of his reference to the "smiler with the knife" in KnT.
- Alternative Title
- Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Knight and His Tale.