Monsters of Misogyny: Bigorne and Chicheface-Suite en Fin?
- Author / Editor
- Jones, Malcolm.
Monsters of Misogyny: Bigorne and Chicheface-Suite en Fin?
- Published
- Timothy S. Jones and David A. Sprunger, eds. Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations (Kalamazoo, Mich: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002), pp. 203-21.
- Physical Description
- 2 b& w figs.
- Description
- Jones surveys in medieval and early modern art and literature the figures of starving and fatted beasts that eat, respectively, obedient wives and complaisant husbands, presented as background to Chaucer's reference to Chichevache in ClT. Includes lists of printed poems and woodcuts.
- Alternative Title
- Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.