Revising History: Narratives of Thebes in the Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Battles, Dominique.

Title
Revising History: Narratives of Thebes in the Middle Ages

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 162A, 2001.

Description
Traces the Theban legend from Statius through a twelfth-century Old French version, school texts, florilegia, commentary, Boccaccio, Chaucer (Anel, KnT), and Lydgate. Also assesses relationships with ancient and medieval history. Lydgate's version removes the Theban curse.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Knight and His Tale.
Anelida and Arcite.