Nice Young Girls and Wicked Old Witches: The 'Rightful Age' of Women in Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Cooke, Jessica.
Nice Young Girls and Wicked Old Witches: The 'Rightful Age' of Women in Middle English Literature
- Published
- Evelyn Mullally and John Thompson, eds. The Court and Cultural Diversity: Selected Papers from the Eighth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, The Queen's University of Belfast, 26 July-1 August 1995 (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N. Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 219-28.
- Description
- Examines references to the ages of women in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," WBT, MerT, and Rom in an effort to understand how the ages of women were perceived.
- Alternative Title
- The Court and Cultural Diversity: Selected Papers from the Eighth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, The Queen's University of Belfast, 26 July-1 August 1995.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Romaunt of the Rose.