Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Chaucer: Ecofeminism and Some Medieval Lady Natures
- Author / Editor
- Kiser, Lisa J.
Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Chaucer: Ecofeminism and Some Medieval Lady Natures
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996), pp. 1-14.
- Description
- Assesses the depiction of female-gendered Nature in Brunetto Latini's "Il Tesoretto," Alain de Lille's "De planctu naturae," Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose," and Chaucer's PF. A modern ecofeminst approach to these depictions helps disclose the binary thinking that underlies them and reveals a surprising variety in the way they reflect power relations between classes and genders.
- Alternative Title
- Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.