Incest and the Medieval Imagination

Author / Editor
Archibald, Elizabeth.

Title
Incest and the Medieval Imagination

Published
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2001.

Physical Description
xv, 295 pp.

Description
Explores incest motifs in a wide range of medieval texts, exploring origins and analogues. Discusses MLT as an example of the motif of the flight from the incestuous father and comments on incest in LGW (Philomena and Semiramis).

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Man of Law and His Tale.
Legend of Good Women.