Women's Power in the 'Tale of Constance'

Author / Editor
Barefield, Laura (D.)

Title
Women's Power in the 'Tale of Constance'

Published
Medieval Perspectives 15.1: 27-34, 2000.

Description
In a deliberate move to fit Constance of MLT to the genre of "hagiographic romance," Chaucer minimizes or eliminates the network of genealogical relations that gives the heroine significance and agency in Trevet's "Les cronicles," Chaucer's source.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.