Classical Paradigms of Rape in the Middle Ages: Chaucer's Lucretia and Philomela
- Author / Editor
- Saunders, Corinne J.
Classical Paradigms of Rape in the Middle Ages: Chaucer's Lucretia and Philomela
- Published
- Susan Deacy and Karen F. Pierce, eds. Rape in Antiquity (London: Duckworth, in association with The Classical Press of Wales, 1997), pp. 243-66
- Description
- Assesses medieval literary representations of rape in light of law, medicine, and theology. Reads Chaucer's account of Lucretia in LGW as a challenge to Augustine's admonitions against suicide, and the account of Philomela as proto-feminist. Compares Chaucer's versions with those of John Gower in Confesssio Amantis.
- Contributor
- Deacy, Susan, ed.
- Pierce, Karen F., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Rape in Antiquity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.