Legends of Good Women : Hagiography and Women's Intervention in Late Medieval Literature

Author / Editor
Sanok, Catherine.

Title
Legends of Good Women : Hagiography and Women's Intervention in Late Medieval Literature

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 2482A, 1999.

Description
Lives of virgin martyr saints became a majority in the genre, appealing predominantly to a female audience and providing "expressions of devotion rather than exhortations to devotion." Sanok discusses works of Chaucer, Margery Kempe, Christine de Pizan, and Osbern Bokenham.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.