'Twenty Thousand More': Some Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Responses to The Legend of Good Women

Author / Editor
Boffey, Julia.

Title
'Twenty Thousand More': Some Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Responses to The Legend of Good Women

Published
A. J. Minnis, ed. Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2001), pp. 279-97.

Description
Boffey summarizes the various numbers of legends included in LGW and in references to the work and assesses concern with these numbers. She considers LGW in light of the tradition of nine female Worthies in literature and the visual arts and in light of illustrated versions of Ovid's "Heroides."

Contributor
Minnis, A. J., ed.

Alternative Title
Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.