The Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature
- Author / Editor
- Smith, Susan L.
The Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 294 pp.
- Description
- Examines visual and verbal representations of the sexual power of women as "a topos of exemplification within the theory and practice of ancient and medieval rhetoric," especially as it developed in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries. Focuses on representations of Virgil in the basket and the mounted Aristotle, with passim references to TC and WBPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.