Les veuves dans les textes de l'angleterre du Moyen Age
- Author / Editor
- Alamichel, Marie-Françoise.
Les veuves dans les textes de l'angleterre du Moyen Age
- Published
- Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes 58: 5-37, 2000.
- Description
- Examines medieval English widows. While Old English literature shows a general lack of interest in marriage and widowhood, Middle English literature is rich in various forms of testimonies. None of the widows surveyed shows true sorrow after the death of her husband.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.