'Other Smale Ymaad Before': Chaucer as Historiographer in the Legend of Good Women

Author / Editor
Getty, Laura J.

Title
'Other Smale Ymaad Before': Chaucer as Historiographer in the Legend of Good Women

Published
ChauR 42 (2007): 48-75.

Description
Each of the legends makes use of "the metonymic possibilities of objects and bodies" to represent the difficulty of discerning truth from fable in written sources available to the historiographer.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations