Reproducing the Past: Gender and History in Later Middle English Romance and Popular Chronicle
- Author / Editor
- Barefield, Laura D.
Reproducing the Past: Gender and History in Later Middle English Romance and Popular Chronicle
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2489A.
- Description
- At the crux of chronicle and romance, Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Historia" provides much of the basis for later literature. The work emphasizes women not only as child bearers but also as speakers who could uphold or deny legitimacy. Barefield discusses Nicholas Trevet, Mary of Woodstock, MLT, the prose Brut, and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.