Incest and the Medieval Imagination
- Author / Editor
- Archibald, Elizabeth.
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.