'Olde Stories' and Amazons: The Legend of Good Women, the 'Knight's Tale,' and Fourteenth-Century Political Culture
- Author / Editor
- Warren, Nancy Bradley.
'Olde Stories' and Amazons: The Legend of Good Women, the 'Knight's Tale,' and Fourteenth-Century Political Culture
- Published
- Carolyn P. Collette, ed. The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 83-104.
- Description
- The "Amazonian" associations - legendary and figurative - of the women in LGW and KnT align the two narratives and suggest that the passive or intercessory roles of royal women in Chaucer's society entailed the "absent presence" of threat to that society.
- Alternative Title
- Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Knight and His Tale.