Chaucer's Criseyde and Feminine Fear
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, Alastair, and Eric J. Johnson.
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.