'Worse Than Bogery': Incest Stories in Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Archibald, Elizabeth.

Title
'Worse Than Bogery': Incest Stories in Middle English Literature

Published
Elizabeth Barnes, ed. Incest and the Literary Imagination (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002), pp. 17-38.

Description
Although the Catholic Church in the twelfth century had developed "extraordinarily rigorous" prohibitions against intermarriage by persons related by blood, by the thirteenth century these standards had to be relaxed. Archibald discusses various Middle English texts, including MLT, PrT, ParsT, and LGW.

Alternative Title
Incest and the Literary Imagination.

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