Legends of Good Women : Hagiography and Women's Intervention in Late Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Sanok, Catherine.
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.