Frauen(körper) in der Patriarchalen Welt des Mittelalters: Chaucers Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Zangen, Britta.

Title
Frauen(körper) in der Patriarchalen Welt des Mittelalters: Chaucers Canterbury Tales

Published
Gabriele Genge, ed. Sprachformen des Körpers in Kunst und Wissenschaft. Kultur und Erkenntnis, no. 25 (Tübingen and Basel: A. Francke, 2000), pp. 244-58.

Description
CT is startlingly antifeminist ("erschreckend frauenfeindlich") in its depiction of women and of male attitudes toward women. Recent criticism has begun to recognize this antifeminism but has not fully overcome adulation of the author.

Alternative Title
Sprachformen des Körpers in Kunst und Wissenschaft.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.