Chaucer's Criseyde and Feminine Fear

Author / Editor
Minnis, Alastair, and Eric J. Johnson.

Title
Chaucer's Criseyde and Feminine Fear

Published
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne et al., eds. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain: Essays for Felicity Riddy (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp. 199-216.

Description
Assesses Criseyde's fearfulness in the context of "late-medieval accounts of the psychology and ethics of fear," arguing that Chaucer presents her not as a "culpably fickle female" but as an (equally essentialized) "attractively fearful female."

Contributor
Johnson, Eric J.

Alternative Title
Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain: Essays for Felicity Riddy.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.