Fashioning Change: Wearing Fortune's Garments in Medieval England

Description: Denny-Brown analyzes sartorial changes accompanying the figure of Fortune from the twelfth century through the late medieval period, considering (along with works by other authors) Chaucer's For, Bo, Form Age, Wom Unc, BD, and MerT. Chaucer's uses of Fortune direct attention to goods in the feudal system, assess wonder elicited by Fortune's goods, and associate late medieval female "consumer behavior" with Fortune's stereotypical characteristics.

Chaucer Subjects: Fortune; Boece; Former Age; Against Women Unconstant; Book of the Duchess; Merchant and His Tale