The Prostitute Figure in Medieval English and French Literature
- Author / Editor
- Abelson-Hoek, Michelle Christine.
The Prostitute Figure in Medieval English and French Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 4418A, 1999.
- Description
- Studies the medieval whore figure as rebel, outlaw, and heretic through historical and sociological analysis of the Norman Latin poem "Jezebel." Chaucer and Langland consider the whore evil but also emblematic of this world's carnal pleasures. Christine de Pizan and François Villon treat her as a social outsider with whom they sometimes identify.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.