Did Goddesses Empower Women? The Case of Dame Nature
- Author / Editor
- Newman, Barbara.
Did Goddesses Empower Women? The Case of Dame Nature
- Published
- Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds. Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), 2003, pp. 135-55.
- Description
- Traces two medieval constructions of Nature as goddess: the antifeminist tradition that runs from Alan de Lille through Jean de Meun to Chaucer's PF, and the relatively profeminist legacy of Heldris of Cornwall ("Roman de Silence") and Christine de Pizan.
- Contributor
- Erler, Mary C., ed.
- Kowaleski, Maryanne, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.