Erotic Dawn-Songs of the Middle Ages: Voicing the Lyric Lady
- Author / Editor
- Sigal, Gale.
Erotic Dawn-Songs of the Middle Ages: Voicing the Lyric Lady
- Published
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1996.
- Physical Description
- xii, 241 pp.
- Description
- Examines the active role of women in medieval albas, or dawn-songs, as indications of women in society. Defines the lyric genre and its history, exploring its relations with courtly tradition, the fantasies reflected in the genre, and the sexual politics that underlie it. Considers, among other works, FranT and TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.